Research Program
Opioids, Drug Policy & Harm Reduction
Overview
I study the intersection of health care regulation, substance-use policy, and drug-related harms. This work includes research on opioid prescribing, occupational licensing, cannabis access laws, industry relationships in the opioid crisis, and fentanyl test strips.
Selected Scholarship
Impact of Fentanyl Test Strips as Harm Reduction for Drug-Related Mortality
Moiz Bhai, Benjamin J. McMichael, and David T. Mitchell
Medical Care Research and Review, 82(3): 240–251 (2025).
The Access-to-Care Epidemic
Benjamin J. McMichael
Wake Forest Law Review, 56(3) (2021).
Contaminated Relationships in the Opioid Crisis
Elissa Philip Gentry and Benjamin J. McMichael
Hastings Law Journal, 72(3): 827–870 (2021).
Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice Laws and Opioid Prescribing
Benjamin J. McMichael
Milbank Quarterly, 99(3): 721–745 (2021).
Occupational Licensing and the Opioid Crisis
Benjamin J. McMichael
UC Davis Law Review, 54(2): 887–966 (2020).
The Impact of Cannabis Access Laws on Opioid Prescribing
Benjamin J. McMichael, R. Lawrence Van Horn, and W. Kip Viscusi
Journal of Health Economics, 69: 102273 (2020).
Data, Code & Interactive Research
Approved public datasets, replication materials, figures, and interactive research may be collected here where available.