Nurse practitioner's independent prescriptive authority and opioids abuse
研究了允许执业护士独立开具二类管制药品的立法变化对阿片类药物滥用的影响，发现仅在强制处方药监测计划实施时，该政策才与治疗入院增加和死亡率下降相关。
This paper investigates the impact of legislative changes allowing nurse practitioners to prescribe schedule II controlled substances independently. We find that this legal environment is associated with an increase in treatment admissions for opioid misuse and a decrease in opioid related mortality only when Mandatory Prescription Drugs Monitoring Programs are in place.