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Spatiotemporal Analysis Exploring the Effect of Law Enforcement Drug Market Disruptions on Overdose, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2020-2021.

American Journal of Public Health, 2023
Objectives. To test the hypothesis that law enforcement efforts to disrupt local drug markets by seizing opioids or stimulants are associated with increased spatiotemporal clustering of overdose events in the surrounding geographic area. Methods.
B. Ray, S. Korzeniewski, George Mohler, J. Carroll, Brandon del Pozo, G. Victor, P. Huynh, B. Hedden   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Psychiatric intervention and repeated admission to emergency centres due to drug overdose

BJPsych Open, 2015
Background Repeated drug overdose is a major risk factor for suicide.
Akiko Kanehara, Hayato Yamana, Hideo Yasunaga, Hiroki Matsui, Shuntaro Ando, Tsuyoshi Okamura, Yousuke Kumakura, Kiyohide Fushimi, Kiyoto Kasai   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban-Rural Differences in Drug Overdose Death Rates, 2020.

NCHS data brief, 2022
Drug overdose death rates, which have been rising over the past decade, differ by urban and rural counties across the United States (1-4). A previous report demonstrated higher drug overdose death rates in urban counties by various demographic and ...
Spencer Merianne Rose, Matthew F Garnett, Miniño Arialdi M.   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Who feels safe calling 911: are prior experiences of anti-Black racial discrimination associated with hesitancy seeking emergency medical services in the event of accidental drug overdose? - a study protocol. [PDF]

Ann Med
Background Racial discrimination is associated with health disparities among Black Americans, a group that has experienced an increase in rates of fatal drug overdose.
Hall OT, Trimble C, Garcia S, Grayson S, Joseph L, Entrup P, Jegede O, Martel JP, Tetrault J, Mathis M, Jordan A.   +10 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Unintentional Drug Overdose Mortality in Years of Life Lost Among Adolescents and Young People in the US From 2015 to 2019

JAMA pediatrics, 2022
This cross-sectional study assesses the mortality among adolescents and young people in the US from 2015 to 2019 in years of life lost from unintentional drug overdose.
O. Hall, Candice Trimble, Stephanie Garcia, Parker Entrup, Megan Deaner, Julie Teater   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pregnancy and Postpartum Drug Overdose Deaths in the US Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

JAMA Psychiatry, 2023
Importance Knowledge about characteristics of US pregnancy-associated decedents is needed to guide responses. Objective To examine individual sociodemographic characteristics and residing county's health care resources and socioeconomic factors among ...
Han B, Compton WM, Einstein EB, Elder E, Volkow ND.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Overdose experiences among injection drug users in Bangkok, Thailand

Harm Reduction Journal, 2010
Background Although previous studies have identified high levels of drug-related harm in Thailand, little is known about illicit drug overdose experiences among Thai drug users.
Wood Evan, Kaplan Karyn, Suwannawong Paisan, Hayashi Kanna, Fairbairn Nadia, Milloy M-J, Kerr Thomas   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

“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.
C.J. Valasek, Samantha A. Streuli, Heather A. Pines, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Annick Borquez, Philippe Bourgois, Tara Stamos-Buesig, Carlos F. Vera, Alicia Harvey-Vera, Angela R. Bazzi   +9 more
doaj  

Drug supply measures and drug overdose mortality in the era of fentanyl and stimulants. [PDF]

Drug Alcohol Depend Rep, 2023
Background: Illicitly-manufactured fentanyl and stimulants have replaced prescription opioids as the primary contributors to fatal overdoses in the United States (US), yet the street supply of these substances is challenging to quantify.
Cano M, Timmons P, Hooten M, Sweeney K.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Exploring the Journey to Drug Overdose: Applying the Journey to Crime Framework to Drug Sales Locations and Overdose Death Locations [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Drug overdose is a pressing public health concern in the United States, resulting in a significant number of fatalities each year. In this study, we employ the Journey to Crime (JTC) framework borrowed from the field of environmental criminology to examine the association between drug sales locations and overdose death locations.
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