ARCOS Database provided by the Washington Post

ARCOS Database provided by the Washington Post. We use the data for the empirical analysis in our article`` Retail Pharmacies and Drug Diversion during the Opioid Epidemic’’.

2006--2012 data from the Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System (ARCOS), maintained by the Diversion Control Division of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

The data can be downloaded from https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2019/07/18/how- download-use-dea-pain-pills-database/ in raw format and until 2021 through an R package (API) on https://github.com/wpinvestigative/arcos. Please follow the requirement of the Washington Post: ‘If you publish an online story, graphic, map or other piece of journalism based on this data set,
please credit The Washington Post, link to the original source, and send us an email when you’ve hit publish. We want to learn what you discover and will attempt to link to your work as part of cataloguing the impact of this project.” (The Washington Post, 2019)

The Washington Post. How to download and use the DEA pain pills database, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2019/07/18/how-download-use-dea-pain-pills-database/