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Re:America’s syringe exchanges kill drug users by iudqnolq on Sunday December 04, 2022 @12:04AM (#33850780)
I'm probably missing something, but about 2/3 of the time I see discontinuity analysis it seems obviously wrong in a stupid way.

Your parent comment said they expected counties facing a crisis to open SEPs. That would be a newly opened SEP caused by drug deaths. So how does using newly-opened SEPs for discontinuity analysis make any sense at all?

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Re:America’s syringe exchanges kill drug users by theptip on Sunday December 04, 2022 @12:30AM (#33850909)
Well, have a look at the paper and let us know how this one is obviously wrong.

It was linked elsewhere in the thread, but here it is: https://apackham.github.io/mywebsite/opioidpaper_webcopy.pdf

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Re:America’s syringe exchanges kill drug users by iudqnolq on Sunday December 04, 2022 @12:48AM (#33851015)
The second paragraph of my comment is why it seemed obviously wrong.

Emphasis on seemed. I started with "I'm probably missing something" because I haven't studied anything relevant .

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