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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
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Charting the Fourth Wave: Geographic, Temporal, Race/Ethnicity, and Demographic Trends in Polysubstance Fentanyl Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2010-2021

medRxiv, 2022
Aims: To characterize polysubstance death in the United States during the transition to the fourth wave of the overdose crisis. To characterize co-involved substances in fatal overdose involving synthetic opioids (mainly illicitly manufactured fentanyl ...
Joseph R. Friedman, Chelsea L. Shover
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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
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Xylazine Spreads Across the US: A Growing Component of the Increasingly Synthetic and Polysubstance Overdose Crisis

medRxiv, 2021
Background: Recent sharp exacerbations of the US overdose crisis have been linked to systemic polysubstance use and potent synthetic compounds in numerous drug classes. Xylazine is a veterinary tranquilizer, long noted in the opioid supply of Puerto Rico,
Joseph R. Friedman, Fernando Montero, Phillippe Bourgois, Rafik Wahbi, Daniel Dye, David Goodman-Meza, Chelsea Shover   +6 more
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Overdose Detection Technologies to Reduce Solitary Overdose Deaths: A Literature Review

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023
Drug overdoses were a leading cause of injury and death in the United States in 2021. Solitary drug use and solitary overdose deaths have remained persistent challenges warranting additional attention throughout the overdose epidemic.
Alexa Rose Lombardi, R. Arya, J. Rosen, Erin Thompson, R. Welwean, J. Tardif, J. Rich, J. Park   +7 more
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Drug Overdose Deaths Among Persons Aged 10–19 Years — United States, July 2019–December 2021

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2022
U.S. drug overdose deaths increased 30% from 2019 to 2020 and 15% in 2021, resulting in an estimated 108,000 deaths in 2021.* Among persons aged 14-18 years, overdose deaths increased 94% from 2019 to 2020 and 20% from 2020 to 2021 (1), although illicit ...
Lauren J. Tanz, Amanda T. Dinwiddie, C. Mattson, J. O'Donnell, N. Davis   +4 more
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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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The role of increasing pharmacy and community distributed naloxone in the opioid overdose epidemic in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York City

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 2022
Background: Naloxone distributed to people at risk for opioid overdose has been associated with reduced overdose death rates; however, associations of retail pharmacy-distributed naloxone with overdose mortality have not been evaluated.
Jake R. Morgan, Christina E. Freibott, Ali Jalali, Philip J. Jeng, Alexander Y. Walley, Avik Chatterjee, Traci C. Green, Michelle L. Nolan, Benjamin P. Linas, Brandon D.L. Marshall, Sean M. Murphy   +10 more
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US Trends in Drug Overdose Mortality Among Pregnant and Postpartum Persons, 2017-2020.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2022
This study evaluates changes in overall and drug-specific overdose mortality among pregnant and postpartum persons before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
E. Bruzelius, S. Martins
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Spatial-temporal trends in the risk of illicit drug toxicity death in British Columbia

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Illicit drug poisoning (overdose) continues to be an important public health problem with overdose-related deaths currently recorded at an unprecedented level. Understanding the geographic variations in fatal overdose mortality is necessary to
Kevin Hu, Brian Klinkenberg, Wen Qi Gan, Amanda K. Slaunwhite   +3 more
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