The opioid crisis has impacted many regions of the United States, transcending
socioeconomic, demographic, and political divides and leading to urgent calls for public …

We estimate a fixed effects county level panel data model to relate socioeconomic variables
to opioid-related drug overdoses, which cost the nation in excess of $430 bn in 2015. In …

Over the past two decades deaths from opioids and other drugs have grown to be a major
US population health problem, but the magnitude of the crisis varies across the US, and …

Over the past two decades deaths from opioids and other drugs have grown to be a major
US population health problem, but the magnitude of the crisis varies across the US, and …

Previous studies have documented the rural-urban disparities of the opioid crisis, but rarely
consider the heterogeneities within rural and urban areas, nor the changing dynamics of the …

Background and aims Both local socio‐economic conditions and prescription opioid supply
are associated with drug overdose deaths, which exhibit substantial geographical …

Previous studies on the opioid crisis in the United States at the subnational level rarely
consider temporal and spatial dependency simultaneously. Under the theoretical framework …

Drug‐related overdoses, and opioid overdoses in particular, have increased substantially
over the past two decades, creating a public health crisis. This crisis has hit both urban and …

In this brief, authors Shannon Monnat and Khary Rigg examine rural versus urban
differences in opioid mortality and identify challenges for dealing with the opioid crisis in …

The United States has experienced a growing opioid epidemic over the past 20 years. This
study characterizes the opioid epidemic in North Carolina along three axes: space, time, and …