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In The Media The New York Times

Should Drug Companies Be Advertising to Consumers?

Interview

Featured Fellow:
  • Abby Alpert, PhD
February 16, 2026
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Blog Post

Health Care Payment and Financing

Six Insights on Health Care Affordability From Penn LDI

LDI Fellows’ Research Quantifies the Effects of High Health Care Costs for Consumers and Shines Light on Several Drivers of High U.S. Health Care Costs

By:
  • Julia Hinckley, JD
February 2, 2026
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Blog Post

Do Direct-to-Consumer Drug Ads Do More Good Than Harm?

The Evidence Suggests a Ban on Ads May Not Be A Well-Targeted Solution

By:
  • Julia Hinckley, JD
December 16, 2025

In The Media The Washington Post

RFK Jr. Wants to Limit the Drug Ads You See

Research Cited

Featured Fellow:
  • Abby Alpert, PhD
July 28, 2025

Policy

Disadvantaging Rivals: Vertical Integration in the Pharmaceutical Market

Briefing: Delivered to the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisors

By:
  • Abby Alpert, PhD
September 14, 2024
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Blog Post

LDI Research Blogs That Caught Your Attention in 2022

A Wide Range of Health Policy Issues Drew Interest

By:
  • LDI Staff
January 9, 2023

In The Media Revisionist History Podcast

Revisionist History | In Triplicate

Interview

Featured Fellow:
  • Abby Alpert, PhD
July 7, 2022

Blog Post

Substance Use Disorder

The Origins of the Opioid Epidemic

Study points to marketing of OxyContin

By:
  • Janet Weiner, PhD, MPH
January 11, 2022

In The Media The Philadelphia Inquirer

Ten Years Ago, OxyContin Sales Dominated Philly’s Pharmacies. How the Powerful Painkiller Helped Fuel a Crisis.

Work Cited

Featured Fellow:
  • Abby Alpert, PhD
December 12, 2019

Blog Post

Substance Use Disorder

Opioids and Hepatitis C: How OxyContin Fed a New Epidemic

Unintended consequences of reformulation

By:
  • Aaron Glickman
February 9, 2019

Blog Post

Substance Use Disorder

Why Deaths Continue to Rise in the Opioid Epidemic

Both prevention and treatment strategies needed

By:
  • Aaron Glickman and Janet Weiner, PhD, MPH
January 20, 2019

News

Twelve Penn Researchers Receive 2019 LDI Pilot Grants

Latest Round of Early Stage HSR Projects Target Challenges in Health and Health Care Delivery

By:
  • Hoag Levins
January 11, 2019

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