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

open access: yesPLOS 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 ...
Maria R D'Orsogna   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Variation in US drug overdose mortality within and between Hispanic/Latine subgroups: A disaggregation of national data

open access: yesSSM - 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.The study utilized 2015–2019 mortality data from the National Center ...
Manuel Cano, Camila Gelpí-Acosta
doaj   +2 more sources

Point Process Modeling of Drug Overdoses with Heterogeneous and Missing Data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Opioid overdose rates have increased in the United States over the past decade and reflect a major public health crisis. Modeling and prediction of drug and opioid hotspots, where a high percentage of events fall in a small percentage of space-time ...
Carter, Jeremy   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

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

open access: yesSubstance 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   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Attitudes and knowledge about naloxone and overdose prevention among detained drug users in Ningbo, China [PDF]

open access: yesSubstance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2012
Background To date there has been limited research on both the prevalence of overdose and drug user knowledge about overdose prevention and response methods in China.
Bartlett, Nicholas   +5 more
core   +5 more sources

The influence of the built environment on drug misuse and abuse [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Construction Project Management and Innovation
Drug misuse and overdoses (DMO) continue to rise in the United States and around the world. As the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown brought America to a standstill, the drug overdose epidemic took a sharp turn for the worse. Poorly built environments have been
Esdaille, Kyle   +2 more
core   +4 more sources

Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999-2020.

open access: yesNCHS data brief, 2021
Deaths from drug overdose continue to contribute to overall mortality and the lowering of life expectancy 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 ...
H. Hedegaard   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Routes of Drug Use Among Drug Overdose Deaths - United States, 2020-2022. [PDF]

open access: yesMMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
Preliminary reports indicate that more than 109,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in 2022; nearly 70% of these involved synthetic opioids other than methadone, primarily illegally manufactured fentanyl and fentanyl analogs (IMFs ...
Tanz LJ   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Using Geographically Weighted Regression to Explore County Subdivision Level Predictors of Drug Overdose Death in Connecticut, U.S.

open access: yesCybergeo, 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 with Evidence of Counterfeit Pill Use - United States, July 2019-December 2021.

open access: yesMMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2023
Using data from CDC's State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System, this report describes trends in overdose deaths with evidence of counterfeit pill use during July 2019-December 2021 in 29 states and the District of Columbia (DC) and ...
J. O'Donnell   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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