Identifying counties at risk of high overdose mortality burden during the emerging fentanyl epidemic in the USA: a predictive statistical modelling study

Summary: Background: The emergence of fentanyl around 2013 represented a new, deadly stage of the opioid epidemic in the USA. We aimed to develop a statistical regression approach to identify counties at the highest risk of high overdose mortality in the subsequent years by predicting annual county...

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Main Authors: Charles Marks, MPH, Daniela Abramovitz, MS, Christl A Donnelly, ProfScD, Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar, MS, Rocío Carrasco-Hernández, PhD, Daniel Ciccarone, ProfMD, Arturo González-Izquierdo, PhD, Natasha K Martin, DPhil, Steffanie A Strathdee, ProfPhD, Davey M Smith, ProfMD, Annick Bórquez, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-10-01
Series:The Lancet Public Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468266721000803