ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2016
Are community level prescription opioid overdoses associated with child harm? A spatial analysis of California zip codes, 2001-2011.
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- The role of faith in parenting; considerations when implementing family skills interventions with families affected by armed conflict or displacement.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Longitudinal changes in the county-level relationship between opioid prescriptions and child maltreatment reports, United States, 2009-2018.The American journal of orthopsychiatry · 2023Article
- The Opioid Crisis and Child Maltreatment Across Counties and Time in the United States, 2007-2017.The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 2022Article
- Relationships Between Opioid-Related Hospitalizations and Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment Hospitalizations in Pennsylvania Across Space and Time.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2022Article
- Prescription Drug Monitoring and Child Maltreatment in the United States, 2004-2018.The Journal of pediatrics · 2022Article
- Families in Crisis: The Relationship Between Opioid Overdoses and Child Maltreatment in Neighborhood Areas.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2022Article
- Opioid prescription rates and risk for substantiated child abuse and neglect: A Bayesian spatiotemporal analysis.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Article
- Considering the child welfare system burden from opioid misuse: research priorities for estimating public costs.The American journal of managed care · 2019Article
- Activity Spaces: Assessing Differences in Alcohol Exposures and Alcohol Use for Parents.GeoJournal · 2019Article
- Effects of Opioid Dependence on Visuospatial Memory and Its Associations With Depression and Anxiety.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- U.S. adults with opioid use disorder living with children: Treatment use and barriers to care.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2018Article
- Drug Use, the Drug Environment, and Child Physical Abuse and Neglect.Child maltreatment · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundNon-medical prescription opioid use is increasing globally within high-income countries, particularly the United States. However, little is known about whether it is associated with negative outcomes for children. In this study, we use prescription opioid overdose as a proxy measure for non-medical prescription opioid use and ask the following: Do California communities with greater rates of non-medical prescription opioid use also have higher rates of child maltreatment and unintentional child injury?
methodsWe used longitudinal population data to examine ecological associations between hospital discharges involving overdose of prescription opioids and those for child maltreatment or child injury in California zip codes between 2001 and 2011 (n=18,517 zip-code year units) using Bayesian space-time misalignment models.
resultsThe percentage of hospital discharges involving prescription opioid overdose was positively associated with the number of hospital discharges for child maltreatment (relative rate=1.089, 95% credible interval (1.004, 1.165)) and child injury (relative rate=1.055, 95% credible interval (1.012, 1.096)) over the ten-year period, controlling for other substance use and environmental factors.
conclusionsIncreases in community level prescription opioid overdoses between 2001 and 2011 are associated with a 2.06% increase in child maltreatment discharges and a 1.27% increase in discharges for child injury. Communities with higher rates of non-medical prescription opioid use may experience greater levels of child harms.
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