COVID‐19 temporarily severed the production and the supply chains for fentanyl, a synthetic
narcotic responsible for over 30,000 deaths in the United States in 2018. Much fentanyl was …

This study analyzes trends in hospital emergency room visits and admissions for patients
with opioid diagnoses seen at 214 hospitals in Illinois over 42 months. Visits were coded …

Introduction Stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic decreased population
mobility to reduce SARS-CoV-2 infection rates. We empirically tested the hypothesis that this …

Purpose Socioeconomic and geographic determinants of medical school application and
matriculation may help explain the unequal distribution of physicians in the United States …

Objective Examine differences in neighborhood characteristics and services between
overdose hotspot and non-hotspot neighborhoods and identify neighborhood-level …

Objective We sought to answer the question of how adolescents (ages 12–17 years old) with
opioid-related presentations are currently managed in the ED. The two main outcomes were …

Background Recent studies underscore the significance of adopting a syndemics approach
to study opioid misuse, overdose, hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV infections, within the broader …

Deaths caused by drug overdoses have increased significantly over the past 2 decades in
the US, becoming a public health concern. Existing empirical evidence examining the …

Background Alcohol outlets have been associated with various forms of injury and may
contribute to neighborhood disparities in drug overdose. Few studies have examined the …

Objective To better understand approaches to reducing mortality from the opioid epidemic,
we analyzed in-hospital versus community opioid-related overdose deaths in Illinois …