{"title":"Drug Decriminalization and Fatal Traffic Crashes: Evidence From BM110 in Oregon.","authors":"Christian Gunadi, Yuyan Shi","doi":"10.1002/hec.4944","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Oregon Ballot Measure 110 (BM 110) reduced the penalties for non-commercial possession of a controlled substance, downgrading them from a felony or misdemeanor to a new Class E violation, punishable by a maximum $100 fine. In this paper, we investigate whether BM 110 was associated with changes in drug-related fatal traffic crashes in Oregon after its implementation in February 2021. To do so, we used Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data from 2018 to 2021 to calculate population-adjusted state-level drug-related fatal traffic crashes. We also employed a modified synthetic control method to create a \"synthetic\" Oregon, designed to closely resemble the state's pre-policy sociodemographic characteristics and outcome trends while correcting for time-invariant pre-policy differences. The findings show that BM 110 was not associated with changes in drug-related fatal traffic crashes per 100,000 population (0.114, 95% CI: -0.106, 0.334). These results suggest that the implementation of BM 110 did not change drug-related fatal traffic crashes in Oregon in the early period following its adoption.</p>","PeriodicalId":12847,"journal":{"name":"Health economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Health economics","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4944","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Oregon Ballot Measure 110 (BM 110) reduced the penalties for non-commercial possession of a controlled substance, downgrading them from a felony or misdemeanor to a new Class E violation, punishable by a maximum $100 fine. In this paper, we investigate whether BM 110 was associated with changes in drug-related fatal traffic crashes in Oregon after its implementation in February 2021. To do so, we used Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data from 2018 to 2021 to calculate population-adjusted state-level drug-related fatal traffic crashes. We also employed a modified synthetic control method to create a "synthetic" Oregon, designed to closely resemble the state's pre-policy sociodemographic characteristics and outcome trends while correcting for time-invariant pre-policy differences. The findings show that BM 110 was not associated with changes in drug-related fatal traffic crashes per 100,000 population (0.114, 95% CI: -0.106, 0.334). These results suggest that the implementation of BM 110 did not change drug-related fatal traffic crashes in Oregon in the early period following its adoption.
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