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Twenty-Year Trends in Drug Overdose Fatalities Among Older Adults in the US.

JAMA psychiatry, 2023
This study uses data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research database to assess 20-year trends in drug overdose fatalities among older adults in the US.
K. Humphreys, Chelsea L. Shover
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Does drug decriminalization increase unintentional drug overdose deaths?: Early evidence from Oregon Measure 110.

Journal of Health Economics, 2023
This paper evaluates the causal effect of drug decriminalization on unintentional drug overdose deaths in a context with relatively poor access to drug treatment services.
Noah Spencer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Understanding and Addressing Widening Racial Inequalities in Drug Overdose

American Journal of Psychiatry
The fourth wave of the United States overdose crisis—driven by the polysubstance use of fentanyl with stimulants and other synthetic substances—has driven sharply escalating racial/ethnic inequalities in drug overdose death rates.
Joseph Friedman, Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako, Helena Hansen   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Compositional and contextual factors associated with drug overdose deaths in the United States

Journal of Addictive Diseases, 2020
Background: In 2017, the US Department of Health and Human Services declared the Opioid epidemic a public health emergency. In the US, emergency rooms treat more than 1,000 people each day for drug overdose, and 115 of them die.
Satish K. Kedia, Nikhil A. Ahuja, David K. Wyant, Patrick J. Dillon, Cem Akkuş, G. Relyea   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

County-level predictors of US drug overdose mortality: A systematic review.

Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2022
BACKGROUND This systematic review summarized published literature on county-level predictors of drug overdose mortality in the United States (US). METHODS Peer-reviewed studies and doctoral dissertations published in English between 1990 and July 19 ...
Manuel Cano, Sehun Oh, Preston R. Osborn, Samson A Olowolaju, A. Sánchez, Yeonwoo Kim, Alberto Cano Moreno   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Scoping Review of Law Enforcement Drug Seizures and Overdose Mortality in the United States

The International journal on drug policy
Background: Leveraging law enforcement drug seizure data to better respond to the overdose crisis requires an understanding of available evidence and knowledge gaps regarding relationships between drug seizures and overdose mortality.
Manuel Cano, Patricia Timmons, Madeline Hooten, Kaylin Sweeney, Sehun Oh   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Racial/ethnic differences in US drug overdose mortality, 2017–2018

Addictive Behaviors, 2021
Manuel Cano
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Drug overdose deaths involving cocaine and psychostimulants with abuse potential among racial and ethnic groups - United States, 2004-2019.

Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2021
Mbabazi Kariisa, P. Seth, Lawrence Scholl, N. Wilson, N. L. Davis   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Supply-side predictors of fatal drug overdose in the Washington/Baltimore HIDTA region: 2016–2020

International Journal of Drug Policy, 2022
Rebecca A Bates, Evan Lowder, Lora Peppard   +2 more
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