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Direct linkApril Yanyuan Wu; Denise Hoffman; Paul O'Leary – Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2025
Our study is the first to provide statistics on opioid use among U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants. We use an innovative machine-learning method to identify opioids in open-ended text fields in SSDI administrative data. We find that more than 30% of applicants between 2007 and 2017 reported using one or more opioids, a…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Drug Use, Disabilities, Federal Programs
