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Disability payments may spur drug abuse
Date:8/13/2007

erbate drug related hospitalizations and deaths. Most of the increase, they state, is driven by SSI and DI recipients.

Our results suggest that full wallets can exacerbate impulse control problems, says author Steven L. Puller, PhD, with Texas A&M University.

The authors observe that their findings could prompt policy makers to explore the possible benefits of an alternate means of disbursing cash aid payments, such as doling them out in installments throughout the month. They also recommend identifying the small subset of aid recipients who account for most of the substance abuse hospitalizations and consider changing the bulk of their aid from cash payments to in-kind support such as food or housing assistance.


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