On generating adequate counterfactuals for national policy evaluations. A response to Mundt et al

Addiction. 2023 Jan;118(1):192-194. doi: 10.1111/add.16068. Epub 2022 Oct 28.

Ariadne Rivera-Aguirre^{1

2}, Alvaro Castillo-Carniglia^{1

2

3}, Hannah S Laqueur⁴, Kara E Rudolph⁵, Silva S Martins⁴, Jessica Ramírez⁶, Rosario Queirolo^{2

7}, Magdalena Cerdá¹

¹ Department of Population Health, Division of Epidemiology, NYU School of Medicine, New York City, NY, USA.
² Millennium Nucleus for the Evaluation and Analysis of Drug Policies, nDP, Santiago, Chile.
³ Society and Health Research Center and School of Public Health, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile.
⁴ Violence Prevention Research Program, Department of Emergency Medicine, UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA.
⁶ National Drug Observatory of Uruguay, National Drug Board, Montevideo, Uruguay.
⁷ Department of Social Sciences, Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay.

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Keywords: Adolescent cannabis use; cannabis legalization; counterfactuals; drug policy; policy evaluation.

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