New and Recurrent Concussions in High School Athletes Before and After Traumatic Brain Injury Laws, 2005-2016
Using data from LawAtlas and the High School Report Injury Online between the 2005-2006 and 2015-2016 academic years, the researchers examined the statistical association between the implementation of state laws addressing concussions and actual concussion rates in high school athletes reported by athletic trainers. The study focused on nine common high-school sports: boys’ football, basketball, soccer, baseball, and wrestling; and girls’ basketball, soccer, softball, and volleyball.
Medicaid Prior Authorization Policies for Medication Treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Young Children, United States, 2015
This study, by researchers from CDC and the Center for Public Health Law Research, used policy surveillance to inventory state Medicaid prior authorization policies for ADHD medication.
Where Next for Opioids and the Law? Despair, Harm Reduction, Lawsuits, and Regulatory Reform
So far, it looks as if law has reduced the damage but not turned back the tide in the opioid epidemic. Given that most states now have adopted some version of Good Samaritan, naloxone access, and PDMP laws, where do lawmakers go next?
State Law Approaches to Facility Regulation of Abortion and Other Office Interventions
This study uses policy surveillance to compare the prevalence and characteristics of facility laws governing abortions specifically targeted regulation of abortion providers (TRAP) laws; office-based surgeries, procedures, sedation or anesthesia (office interventions) generally (OBS laws); and other procedures.
Electronic Cigarette Laws
This map shows U.S. federal and state laws that regulate e-cigarettes.
Office-Based Surgery Laws
This legal map shows laws that regulate various aspects of non-hospital facilities that provide office-based surgery, procedures and/or anesthesia/sedation.
Soil Vapor Intrusion Laws
This map identifies and displays a cross-sectinal dataset of key features of how states address the volatilization of chemicals of concern from subsurface soils to indoor air during the soil vapor intrusion pathway across all 50 states and the District of Columbia as of August 1, 2017.