Overdose deaths are often viewed as the leading edge of the opioid epidemic which has
gripped the United States over the past two decades (Skolnick, 2018a). This emphasis is�…

Background The US overdose crisis is driven by fentanyl, heroin, and prescription opioids.
One evidence-based policy response has been to broaden naloxone distribution, but how�…

Methods| We calculated drug overdose deaths per 100 000 population for adolescents
(aged 14-18 years), compared with the overall population, from January 2010 to June 2021�…

Objectives. To explore the implementation and effectiveness of the British Columbia,
Canada, risk mitigation guidelines among people who use drugs, focusing on how�…

Objectives. To test the hypothesis that law enforcement efforts to disrupt local drug markets
by seizing opioids or stimulants are associated with increased spatiotemporal clustering of�…

Aims To characterize polysubstance death in the United States during the transition to the
fourth wave of the drug overdose crisis. To characterize co‐involved substances in fatal�…

Background Opioid dependence is associated with substantial health and social burdens,
and opioid agonist treatment (OAT) is highly effective in improving multiple outcomes for�…

Importance Overdoses continue to increase in the US, but the contribution of
methamphetamine use is understudied in rural communities. Objective To estimate the�…

Drug overdoses from opioids and stimulants are a major cause of mortality in the United
States. It is unclear if there are stable sex differences in overdose mortality for these drugs�…

Opioid overdose deaths remain a major public health crisis. We used a system dynamics
simulation model of the US opioid-using population age 12 and older to explore the impacts�…