ABSTRACT The United States has experienced an unprecedented crisis related to the
misuse of and addiction to opioids. As of 2018, 128 Americans die each day of an opioid …

We review quasi-experimental studies that examine the relationship of opioids to health,
healthcare, and crime in the US Our findings align with the general perception that the …

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

The demand-side perspective argues that the drug overdose epidemic is a consequence of
changes in the economy that leave behind working-class people who lack a college …

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 …

Opioid poisoning mortality is a substantial public health crisis in the United States, with
opioids involved in approximately 75% of the nearly 1 million drug related deaths since …

A growing body of research has begun to identify the social and ecological predictors of
community overdose rates. However, questions remain about these relationships, and it is …

This study analyzes trends in hospital emergency room visits and admissions for patients
with opioid diagnoses seen at 214 hospitals in Illinois over 42 months. Visits were coded …

This paper examines the long-standing and severe public health crisis, the opioid epidemic
in the United States, which has been worsening since the mid-1990s. In contrast to previous …

The newly emerged pandemic poses several socioeconomic crises as globally. Among
social crisis drug overdose is increased during pandemic COVID-19 in different parts of the …