A 'fourth wave'of high mortality involving methamphetamine and cocaine use has been
gathering force in the USA. Availability and use of illicit fentanyls are still the major drivers of …

Interventions to address the US opioid crisis primarily target opioid use, misuse, and
addiction, but because the opioid crisis includes multiple substances, the opioid specificity of …

Drug overdose deaths have been rising over the past 2 decades in the United States (1-4).
This report uses the most recent data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to …

Methods| A total of 381 consecutive patients who presented to the emergency department
with SARS-CoV-2 and recovered from COVID-19 infection were referred for a postrecovery …

Importance Mortality associated with methamphetamine use has increased markedly in the
US. Understanding patterns of methamphetamine use may help inform related prevention …

Importance US life expectancy has not kept pace with that of other wealthy countries and is
now decreasing. Objective To examine vital statistics and review the history of changes in …

The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures required to address it are cutting a swathe
through people's lives and the global economy. People with addictive disorders are …

The US mortality rate has gone up three years in a row from 2014 to 2017 (Xu, Murphy,
Kochanek, & Arias, 2016; Murphy, Xu, Kochanek, & Arias, 2018; Kochanek, Murphy, Xu, & …

Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the United States opioid overdose crisis response |
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Our objective was to estimate the US national cost burden of hospital‐acquired pressure
injury (HAPI) using economic simulation methods. We created a Markov simulation to …