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

• Main Authors: Charles Marks, MPH (Author), Daniela Abramovitz, MS (Author), Christl A Donnelly, ProfScD (Author), Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar, MS (Author), Rocío Carrasco-Hernández, PhD (Author), Daniel Ciccarone, ProfMD (Author), Arturo González-Izquierdo, PhD (Author), Natasha K Martin, DPhil (Author), Steffanie A Strathdee, ProfPhD (Author), Davey M Smith, ProfMD (Author), Annick Bórquez, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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-...