An Analysis of the Significant Variation
in Psychostimulant Use Across the U.S.
Summer 2005
Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety (in press)
Farasat Bokhari, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Florida State University
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Rick Mayes, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy
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University of Richmond
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Richard M. Scheffler, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Health Economics & Public Policy
Nicholas C. Petris Center
Graduate School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
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University of California, Berkeley
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We wish to thank Doug Schwalm, Ph.D., James Bosco, Ph.D., Patricia Pastor, Ph.D., and
Jennifer Mayes for their helpful critiques of this paper at various stages of its
development. We also want to express our gratitude to the Nicholas C. Petris Center on
Healthcare Markets & Consumer Welfare and the Center for Child & Youth Policy at the
University of California, Berkeley for their financial support of our research.
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