Background and aims: Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) were designed to
curb opioid misuse and diversion by tracking scheduled medications prescribed by medical …

Background Compared to heterosexual and cisgender people, lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ+) people are more likely …

Objectives: To elucidate the main latent classes of substances detected among overdose
decedents, and latent class associations with age, sex, race, and jurisdiction of death in …

Background Over the past decade, rates of drug poisoning deaths have increased
dramatically in Canada. Current evidence suggests that the non-medical use of synthetic …

Background Identifying differences in unintentional versus intentional drug poisoning deaths
can inform targeted prevention. This study aimed to: compare unintentional versus …

Abstract Introduction The United States drug overdose crisis continues to evolve. Xylazine
has been increasingly identified as an adulterant in illicit opioid supplies. The incorporation …

Purpose Since 2012 fentanyl-detected fatal overdoses have risen from 4% of all fatal
overdoses in Connecticut to 82% in 2019. We aimed to investigate the geographic and …

Background Polysubstance involvement is increasing among fatal drug overdoses.
However, little is known about the epidemiology of polysubstance drug overdoses. This …

Objectives While use of opioids is a well‐established risk factor for opioid use disorder
(OUD), its association with lifetime use of other addictive substances and the emergence of …

METHODS We used RI's State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS)
to identify opioid overdose deaths that were unintentional or undetermined in intent, and …