ArticleHealth services research2020
The effect of evictions on accidental drug and alcohol mortality.
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the relationship between county-level eviction rates and drug and alcohol mortality rates. DATA SOURCES: Eviction rates from 2003 to 2016 provided by the Princeton University Eviction Lab were merged with Multiple Cause-of-Death Mortality Files and aggregated to the county-year level. STUDY
designAll opioid (prescription and heroin), cocaine, psychostimulant, benzodiazepine, antidepressant, and alcohol poisoning-related deaths per 100 000 people, eviction rates, and socioeconomic indicators were merged at the county-year level from 2003 to 2016. We estimated a series of mortality rate models with county and year fixed effects and used a control function (2SRI) method to adjust for the endogeneity of eviction rates. DATA COLLECTION/EXTRACTION
methodsWe matched retrospectively collected datasets. PRINCIPAL
findingsHigher levels of eviction rates were consistently associated with higher rates of mortality across six of nine substance categories studied when all counties were combined. Subanalysis by USDA population density measures indicated this positive association was almost entirely driven by urban counties; few systematic associations between the eviction rate levels and mortality were observed for suburban or rural counties.
conclusionsRisk of eviction appears to exacerbate the current "deaths of despair" crisis associated with substance use. Proposed changes to Housing and Urban Development policy that are expected to substantially increase the risk of eviction may worsen an already-acute mortality crisis.
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