Do Policies to Increase Access to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Work?

We thank Abby Alpert, W. David Bradford, Zack Cooper, Ellen Meara, and Kosali Simon for helpful comments and suggestions. We are also grateful for comments by participants in seminars at Dartmouth, the American Society of Health Economists, Johns Hopkins, the University of Minnesota, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. We are grateful to the staff of the Health Care Cost Institute for answering numerous data and access-related questions. All errors are our own, and the views in this paper may not reflect the views of the organizations with which we are affiliated. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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