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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2026

The 2025 Drug Overdose Spike That Wasn't: Neither Politics nor Data Errors Explain the Anomaly.

Lori Ann Post, Daniel Ciccarone, Alexander Lars Lundberg, Maryann Mason, Shivangi Sharma, George Jay Unick, Nabarun Dasgupta

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Article in American journal of public health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Lori Ann PostLori Ann Post, Alexander Lars Lundberg, Maryann Mason, and Shivangi Sharma are with the Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. Daniel Ciccarone is with Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. George Jay Unick is with the School of Social Work, University of Maryland at Baltimore. Nabarun Dasgupta is with the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.ORCID 0000-0002-6261-3254
Daniel CiccaroneLori Ann Post, Alexander Lars Lundberg, Maryann Mason, and Shivangi Sharma are with the Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. Daniel Ciccarone is with Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. George Jay Unick is with the School of Social Work, University of Maryland at Baltimore. Nabarun Dasgupta is with the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.ORCID 0000-0002-2355-5477
Alexander Lars LundbergLori Ann Post, Alexander Lars Lundberg, Maryann Mason, and Shivangi Sharma are with the Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. Daniel Ciccarone is with Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. George Jay Unick is with the School of Social Work, University of Maryland at Baltimore. Nabarun Dasgupta is with the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.ORCID 0000-0002-9743-8441
Maryann MasonLori Ann Post, Alexander Lars Lundberg, Maryann Mason, and Shivangi Sharma are with the Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. Daniel Ciccarone is with Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. George Jay Unick is with the School of Social Work, University of Maryland at Baltimore. Nabarun Dasgupta is with the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.ORCID 0000-0001-6524-1532
Shivangi SharmaLori Ann Post, Alexander Lars Lundberg, Maryann Mason, and Shivangi Sharma are with the Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. Daniel Ciccarone is with Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. George Jay Unick is with the School of Social Work, University of Maryland at Baltimore. Nabarun Dasgupta is with the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.ORCID 0009-0003-5951-281X
George Jay UnickLori Ann Post, Alexander Lars Lundberg, Maryann Mason, and Shivangi Sharma are with the Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. Daniel Ciccarone is with Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. George Jay Unick is with the School of Social Work, University of Maryland at Baltimore. Nabarun Dasgupta is with the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.ORCID 0000-0001-6939-3162
Nabarun DasguptaLori Ann Post, Alexander Lars Lundberg, Maryann Mason, and Shivangi Sharma are with the Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. Daniel Ciccarone is with Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. George Jay Unick is with the School of Social Work, University of Maryland at Baltimore. Nabarun Dasgupta is with the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.ORCID 0000-0002-4098-605X

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6 · The paper itself

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PMID41950462
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