This Viewpoint considers the implications of incorporating two interdisciplinary and
burgeoning fields of study, settler colonialism and racial capitalism, as prominent …

This article reviews research investigating the synergistic interaction of opioid-related
morbidity and mortality with other social, psychiatric, and biological conditions, to describe …

Indigenous people suffer earlier death and more frequent and severe disease than their
settler counterparts, a remarkably persistent reality over time, across settler colonized …

Methods| This cross-sectional study leveraged records from the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention WONDER database to calculate midlife (age, 45-54 years) mortality from …

Suicide rates in the United States have increased over the past 15 years, with substantial
geographic variation in these increases; yet there have been few attempts to cluster counties …

A silent crisis is occurring across American Indian and Alaska Native populations. Early
death robs families, tribes, and generations of their culture, kinship systems, and lineage. In …

The fourth wave of the United States overdose crisis—driven by the polysubstance use of
fentanyl with stimulants and other synthetic substances—has driven sharply escalating …

Rurality has served as a key concept in popular and scientific understandings of the US
overdose crisis, with White, rural, and low-income areas thought to be most heavily affected …

Abstract Deaths of Despair (DoD), or mortality resulting from suicide, drug overdose, and
alcohol-related liver disease, have been rising steadily in the United States over the last …

Abstract Introduction American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations are
disproportionately affected by substance use disorders (SUDs) and related health disparities …