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Variation in US Drug Overdose Mortality Within and Between Hispanic/Latine Subgroups: A Disaggregation of National Data

SSM - Mental Health, 2022
This study examined differences across Latine heritage groups (i.e., Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American, South American) in rates of US drug overdose mortality.
M. Cano, C. Gelpí-Acosta
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Fentanyl-driven acceleration of racial, gender and geographical disparities in drug overdose deaths in the United States

PLOS Global Public Health, 2023
We examine trends in drug overdose deaths by race, gender, and geography in the United States during the period 2013–2020. Race and gender specific crude rates were extracted from the final National Vital Statistics System multiple cause-of-death ...
M. D’Orsogna, Lucas Böttcher, T. Chou
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

“A lotta people switched playing hard ball to playing Russian roulette”: Experiences with rising overdose incidence caused by drug supply changes during the COVID-19 pandemic in the San Diego-Tijuana border metroplex

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 2023
: Background: People who use drugs (PWUD) in the San Diego, USA and Tijuana, Mexico metroplex face high overdose risk related to historic methamphetamine use and relatively recent fentanyl introduction into local drug supplies.
Chad J. Valasek, Samantha Streuli, Heather A. Pines, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Annick Bórquez, Philippe Bourgois, Tara Stamos-Buesig, Carlos F. Vera, Alicia Vera, Angela R. Bazzi   +9 more
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The impact of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on drug overdose-related deaths in the United States and Canada: a systematic review of observational studies and analysis of public health surveillance data

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2021
Background There are preliminary indications that the trajectory of drug overdose-related deaths in North America has been exacerbated due to the novel coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19).
Sameer Imtiaz, Frishta Nafeh, Cayley Russell, Farihah Ali, T. Elton-Marshall, J. Rehm   +5 more
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Using Geographically Weighted Regression to Explore County Subdivision Level Predictors of Drug Overdose Death in Connecticut, U.S.

Cybergeo, 2023
Deaths caused by drug overdoses have increased significantly over the past 2 decades in the U.S, becoming a public health concern. Existing empirical evidence examining the spatial association between the contextual correlates and drug overdose death ...
Yunliang Meng
doaj   +1 more source

Drug overdose deaths in Kentucky, 2019-2024: are we back to Pre-COVID-19 levels? [PDF]

Inj Epidemiol
Background Kentucky has historically experienced a high burden of drug overdose deaths. During the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state saw a 45% increase in overdose deaths in 2020, followed by an additional 15% increase in 2021.
Smith AP, Lang J, Canedo C, Freeman PR, Hammerslag LR, Harris DR, Kizewski A, Rock P, Seyedtalebi NM, Westgate PM, Talbert J, Walsh SL, Slavova S.   +12 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2001-2021.

NCHS data brief, 2022
Drug overdose deaths have been rising over the past 2 decades in the United States (1-4). This report uses the most recent data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to update statistics on deaths from drug overdose in the United States ...
M. Spencer, A. Miniño, M. Warner
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Predicting accidental drug overdose as the cause of fatality in near real-time using the Suspected Potential Overdose Tracker (SPOT): public health implications

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Effective responses to the worsening drug overdose epidemic require accurate and timely drug overdose surveillance data. The objectives of this paper are to describe the development, functionality, and accuracy of the Suspected Potential ...
Karli R. Hochstatter, Sonal Rastogi, Kathryn Klein, Cameron Tait-Ozer, Nabila El-Bassel, Jason Graham   +5 more
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Evaluation of Increases in Drug Overdose Mortality Rates in the US by Race and Ethnicity Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

JAMA psychiatry, 2022
Evaluation of Increases in Drug Overdose Mortality Rates in the US by Race and Ethnicity Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Drug overdose mortality rates have increased sharply in the US since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020.1 Since 2015 ...
J. Friedman, H. Hansen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The association of criminal justice supervision setting with overdose mortality: a longitudinal cohort study. [PDF]

, 2020
Background and aimsDespite the high prevalence of substance use among people in the US criminal justice system, little is known about the incidence of overdose mortality by use patterns, drug convictions and supervision setting.
Anderson R. N., Aos S., Bronson J., Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Kaeble D., Kaeble D., Michigan Judicial Institute, National Center for Health Statistics, Zeng Z.   +8 more
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