This article explores adolescent opioid abuse, emphasizing the roles of parents and prescribers in education, safe storage, and proper disposal of medications to prevent misuse, as highlighted through two related studies.

This article highlights the effectiveness of child safety seat laws, reducing childhood motor vehicle injuries by 35%, and increasing safety seat usage by 13%.

Community services providers should be encouraged or required to promote the use of advance directives.

This article discusses using legal efforts to reduce childhood vaccination exemptions, aiming to increase vaccination rates, immunity, and public health through stronger prevention measures.

This article discusses strengthening state physical education requirements to improve physical activity and prevent chronic disease, contributing to better public health and prevention.

This article discusses stricter FDA food labeling regulations to eliminate dishonesties and improve public health by enhancing nutrition and food labeling for informed consumer choices.

This article highlights evidence that residential zoning in commercial areas reduces crime. Insights are shared through the Critical Opportunities initiative by Public Health Law Research.

To better understand these results, the study examines which patents are challenged on each drug, and shows that lower quality and later expiring patents disproportionately draw challenges.

The study finds that zoning matters. An important fraction of reported crime is associated with the primary kind of zoning on a city block

The existence of different types of accreditation legal frameworks, embedded in complex and varying state legal infrastructures and political environments, raises important legal implications for the national voluntary accreditation program.

Our econometric analyses of challenges over the past decade show that brand-name sales have a positive effect on the likelihood of generic challenge.

This study evaluates Rochester's 2005 lead law, showing its effectiveness in reducing lead hazards in rental housing and improving children's health through strong enforcement and intergovernmental support.

This article examines how decision-making environments influence health choices, revealing how role, context, and state affect health decisions and how cognitive biases often lead to suboptimal choices.

This study examines state laws regulating driver use of mobile devices between 1992–2010. It finds varying restrictions across states, with 39 states having laws but none fully banning device use by all drivers.