“We adjusted for race”: now what? A systematic review of utilization and reporting of race in American Journal of Epidemiology and Epidemiology, 2020–2021

ME Swilley-Martinez, SA Coles, VE Miller… - Epidemiologic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Race is a social construct, commonly used in epidemiologic research to adjust for
confounding. However, adjustment of race may mask racial disparities thereby perpetuating …

Understanding the role of urban social and physical environment in opioid overdose events using found geospatial data

Y Li, HJ Miller, ED Root, A Hyder, D Liu - Health & Place, 2022 - Elsevier
Opioid use disorder is a serious public health crisis in the United States. Manifestations such
as opioid overdose events (OOEs) vary within and across communities and there is growing …

[HTML][HTML] Methodological approaches for the prediction of opioid use-related epidemics in the United States: a narrative review and cross-disciplinary call to action

C Marks, G Carrasco-Escobar… - Translational …, 2021 - Elsevier
The opioid crisis in the United States has been defined by waves of drug-and locality-
specific Opioid use-Related Epidemics (OREs) of overdose and bloodborne infections …

Drug overdose mortality by race/ethnicity across US-born and immigrant populations

M Cano, CS Sparks - Drug and alcohol dependence, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The present study examined racial/ethnic differences in US drug overdose
mortality among US-born and foreign-born men and women. Methods In this cross-sectional …

Analysis of urine drug test results from substance use disorder treatment practices and overdose mortality rates, 2013-2020

P Whitley, L LaRue, SA Fernandez… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Drug overdose deaths in the US are currently the highest ever recorded; data
collected from public health surveillance sources can help to identify emerging drug use …

Forecasting drug-overdose mortality by age in the United States at the national and county levels

L Böttcher, T Chou, MR D'Orsogna - PNAS nexus, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The drug-overdose crisis in the United States continues to intensify. Fatalities have
increased 5-fold since 1999 reaching a record high of 108,000 deaths in 2021. The …

The impact of fentanyl on state-and county-level psychostimulant and cocaine overdose death rates by race in Ohio from 2010 to 2020: a time series and …

AT Estadt, BN White, JNM Ricks, KE Lancaster… - Harm Reduction …, 2024 - Springer
Background Over the past decade in the USA, increases in overdose rates of cocaine and
psychostimulants with opioids were highest among Black, compared to White, populations …

Exploring county-level spatio-temporal patterns in opioid overdose related emergency department visits

A Acharya, AM Izquierdo, SF Gonçalves, RA Bates… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Opioid overdoses within the United States continue to rise and have been negatively
impacting the social and economic status of the country. In order to effectively allocate …

Hospitalizations for alcohol and opioid use disorders in older adults: trends, comorbidities, and differences by gender, race, and ethnicity

A Acevedo, I Rodriguez Borja… - Substance Abuse …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The prevalence of substance use disorders (SUDs) among adults ages 65 and
older has been increasing at a notably high rate in recent years, yet little information exists …

Unexplained mortality during the US COVID-19 pandemic: retrospective analysis of death certificate data and critical assessment of excess death calculations

KA Fairman, KJ Goodlet, JD Rucker, RS Zawadzki - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Cause-of-death discrepancies are common in respiratory illness-related
mortality. A standard epidemiological metric, excess all-cause death, is unaffected by these …