Visualizing Age, Period, and Cohort Patterns of Substance Use in the U.S. Opioid Crisis

Descriptions of the contemporary U.S. opioid crisis emphasize several “waves” of overdose deaths. However, a focus on trends in overdose deaths may obscure important sociological dynamics. The authors provide heatmap visualizations of estimated annual rates of past-year substance use, rather than ov...

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Main Authors: Ashton M. Verdery, Kira England, Alexander Chapman, Liying Luo, Katherine McLean, Shannon Monnat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-02-01
Series:Socius
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023120906944