The moral hazard of writing about opioid addiction using the scientfic method

Take a look at the blog entry (click here).   These researchers wanted to know if increasing access to narloxon creates moral hazard on the part of opioid users.  In other words, would users be less careful in regulating dosage if they knew they were more likely to be saved from an overdose.  The bloggers wrote a working paper which suggests that moral hazard did occur.  Then they were attacked for writing such a paper on such a topic using the techniques that they did.   I think this is one more instance where Carl Sagan would be unhappy with the state of research today.