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 …

Conventional, neoclassical economics assumes perfectly rational agents (firms, consumers,
investors) who face well-defined problems and arrive at optimal behaviour consistent with …

Importance Fading economic opportunity has been hypothesized to be an important factor
associated with the US opioid overdose crisis. Automotive assembly plant closures are …

Background This systematic review summarized published literature on county-level
predictors of drug overdose mortality in the United States (US). Methods Peer-reviewed …

Background Although homelessness is a well-documented risk factor for drug overdose at
the individual level, less is known about state-level homelessness and overdose mortality in …

Undocumented Latinx immigrants experience unique factors prior to migration, during
migration, and after migration that shape their health. Our review summarizes the limited but …

We investigate the role of person-and place-specific factors in the opioid epidemic by
developing and estimating a dynamic model of prescription opioid abuse. We estimate the …

The underlying reasons behind the unprecedented increase of the mortality rates due to the
opioid epidemics in the United States are still not fully uncovered. Most efforts have been …

Importance Diseases of despair (ie, mortality or morbidity from suicidality, drug abuse, and
alcoholism) were first characterized as increasing in rural White working-class populations …

Over the past two decades, opioid overdose deaths contributed to the dramatic rise in all-
cause mortality among non-Hispanic Whites. To date, efforts among scholars to understand …