ArticleThe International journal on drug policy2020
US drug overdose mortality: 2009-2018 increases affect young people who use drugs.
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- Non-fatal Overdose and Associated Factors Among People Who Use Opioids: Findings From a Cross-sectional Study.Journal of community health · 2025Article
- Spatial analysis of county-level determinants of overdose mortality in the United States using spatial machine learning.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Changes in Synthetic Opioid-Involved Youth Overdose Deaths in the United States: 2018-2022.Pediatrics · 2025Article
- Racial/ethnic inequality in homelessness and drug overdose deaths in US States.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Regional differences in fatal drug overdose deaths among Black and White individuals in the United States, 2012-2021.The American journal on addictions · 2024Article
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- Individual-level and neighborhood-level shifts in mortality patterns among drug poisoning deaths in a high-density Asian city: a territory-wide, case-only analysis.International health · 2023Article
- Overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids: Racial/ethnic and educational disparities in the eastern and western US.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Article
- Spatial access to buprenorphine-waivered prescribers in the HEALing communities study: Enhanced 2-step floating catchment area analyses in Massachusetts, Ohio, and Kentucky.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2023Article
- Opioid overdose decedent characteristics during COVID-19.Annals of medicine · 2022Article
- Preventing Overdose Using Information and Data from the Environment (PROVIDENT): protocol for a randomized, population-based, community intervention trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Article
- Patterns of reduced use and abstinence in multi-site randomized controlled trials of pharmacotherapies for cocaine and methamphetamine use disorders.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeDrug overdose mortality remains a public health concern in many countries globally. In the US, overdoses involving synthetic opioids are the primary contributor to overdose mortality. We aimed to assess trends in overdose death due to synthetic opioids among young people and describe key demographic and temporal changes.
methodsData from the US National Vital Statistics System Multiple Cause of Death files for 2009-2018 were analysed to determine age-specific overdose death rates by region (i.e. east versus west of the Mississippi River). Age-adjusted overdose mortality rates were used to compare demographic differences in all drug and synthetic opioid overdose among young people (aged 15-34 years) using a joinpoint regression with Poisson-approximated standard errors.
resultsDriven by synthetic opioid overdose, the age burden of mortality shifted towards young people in eastern states and remained approximately constant in western states over the study period. The highest increases in drug overdose mortality rates were observed in young Black and Hispanic people and those living in large metropolitan areas.
conclusionsRapid changes in the demographics of overdose demonstrate distinct but overlapping US overdose sub-epidemics, and highlight the need for targeted interventions to reduce overdose risk in young people.
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