ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2019
Increased overdose mortality during the first week of the month: Revisiting the "check effect" through a spatial lens.
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- Social and economic determinants of drug overdose deaths: a systematic review of spatial relationships.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Pooled it
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- Effect of alternative income assistance schedules on drug use and drug-related harm: a randomised controlled trial.The Lancet. Public health · 2021Trial
- The impact of cash and near-cash social policies on substance use outcomes: a scoping review.Health affairs scholar · 2026Review
- Lifting eviction moratoria shifted treatment for substance use disorders.Health affairs scholar · 2026Article
- Trajectories of neighborhood-level overdose risk predictions for prioritization of harm reduction services: Results from the PROVIDENT study.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Impact of Alternative Income Assistance Payment Schedules on Health and Social Service Access in Canada: Evidence from an Experimental Study.Journal of social service research · 2025Article
- 'It was like coming back from the clouds': a qualitative analysis of the lived experience of overdose consequent to drug use among a cohort of people who use drugs in Scotland.Harm reduction journal · 2024Article
- Spatiotemporal analysis of the association between residential eviction and fatal overdose in Rhode Island.BMJ public health · 2024Article
- A simple heuristic for allocating opioid settlement funding to reduce overdose mortality in the United States.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2024Article
- Characterizing opioid overdose hotspots for place-based overdose prevention and treatment interventions: A geo-spatial analysis of Rhode Island, USA.The International journal on drug policy · 2024Article
- Multi-level influences on increased overdose risk behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic among people who use drugs in Rhode Island: a qualitative investigation.Harm reduction journal · 2023Article
- Changes in the unregulated opioid drug supply during income assistance payment weeks in Vancouver, Canada: An exploratory analysis.The International journal on drug policy · 2022Article
- COVID-19 economic impact payments and opioid overdose deaths.The International journal on drug policy · 2022Observational
- Machine learning takes a village: Assessing neighbourhood-level vulnerability for an overdose and infectious disease outbreak.The International journal on drug policy · 2021Article
- Comparison of Characteristics of Deaths From Drug Overdose Before vs During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Rhode Island.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Drug-related harm coinciding with income assistance payments: results from a community-based cohort of people who use drugs.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Observational
- Identifying high-risk areas for nonfatal opioid overdose: a spatial case-control study using EMS run data.Annals of epidemiology · 2019Article
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backgroundThe timing of social service benefit issuance is thought to be associated with increased drug overdose fatalities. However, the extent to which this excess mortality is concentrated in communities with higher levels of benefit receipt has not been studied. We sought to examine if benefit receipt at the neighborhood level was associated with spatiotemporal patterns of overdose fatalities.
methodsWe conducted a retrospective review of all accidental overdose deaths recorded in Rhode Island from 2014 to 2016 (n = 838). Overdose incident locations were geocoded to the census block group level. Clusters of census block groups with excess overdose mortality at the beginning of a month were identified using spatial scan methods. Logistic regression models were fit to identify characteristics associated with the inclusion of a census block group within a cluster.
resultsIncreased rates of overdose fatalities at the beginning of a month were observed relative to the end of a preceding month (Ratio: 1.17; 95% CI: 1.04, 1.38). The proportions of residents receiving cash public assistance or Supplemental Security Income were not associated with excess mortality at the beginning of a month; however, the proportion of residents living in unaffordable housing was (OR: 1.42; 95% CI: 1.05, 1.91).
conclusionDespite previous research on benefit check issuance and overdose, welfare receipt was not associated with excess overdose mortality at the beginning of a month at the neighborhood level. Future research on housing cost burden and its influence on overdose death risk at the individual level is needed.
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