As the opioid epidemic continues to worsen throughout the United States, researchers and
practitioners require additional tools to help in efforts to address use and prevent overdose.
Although opioids are increasingly of concern to all racial and socioeconomic groups,
specific geographic regions and sub-populations remain more burdened by overdoses than
others. The example of Flint, Michigan, is used to contextualize the landscape of opioid
overdose death and understand geographic and demographic variation in risk. Kernel …