2023
Understanding the differential effect of local socio‐economic conditions on the relation between prescription opioid supply and drug overdose deaths in US counties
Fink D, Keyes K, Branas C, Cerdá M, Gruenwald P, Hasin D. Understanding the differential effect of local socio‐economic conditions on the relation between prescription opioid supply and drug overdose deaths in US counties. Addiction 2023, 118: 1072-1082. PMID: 36606567, PMCID: PMC10175115, DOI: 10.1111/add.16123.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPrescription opioid supplyLocal socio-economic conditionsIncome inequalitySocio-economic conditionsPoverty ratesDrug overdose deathsHDI scoreUS countiesOpioid supplyOverdose deathsHeroin overdose deathsAmerican Human Development IndexLower income inequalityLower poverty ratesHigher income inequalityHuman Development IndexSocio-economic indicatorsCounty-level studyAnnual mortality dataUnited StatesMortality dataDevelopment IndexInequalityPovertyHierarchical Poisson models
2019
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Opioid Overdoses
Castillo-Carniglia A, Ponicki W, Gaidus A, Gruenewald P, Marshall B, Fink D, Martins S, Rivera-Aguirre A, Wintemute G, Cerdá M. Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Opioid Overdoses. Epidemiology 2019, 30: 212-220. PMID: 30721165, PMCID: PMC6437666, DOI: 10.1097/ede.0000000000000950.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPrescription drug monitoring programsOnline prescription drug monitoring programsDrug monitoring programsNoncancer pain conditionsPrescription opioid overdoseMedication accessPain conditionsOpioid overdoseRate of hospital dischargeCounty-level ratesPrescription opioidsHeroin overdoseCounty levelRates of hospitalizationOpioid-related hospitalizationsAssociated with lower ratesMedical providersReduce harmHospital dischargeCounty-levelHierarchical Poisson modelsPrescriptionOpioidPoisson modelHospital
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