Sociodemographic and geographic disparities in excess fatal drug overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic in California: A population-based study

• Main Authors: Mathew V. Kiang (Author), Rolando J. Acosta (Author), Yea-Hung Chen (Author), Ellicott C. Matthay (Author), Alexander C. Tsai (Author), Sanjay Basu (Author), M. Maria Glymour (Author), Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo (Author), Keith Humphreys (Author), Kristen N. Arthur (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is co-occurring with a drug addiction and overdose crisis. Methods: We fit overdispersed Poisson models, accounting for seasonality and secular trends, to estimate the excess fatal drug overdoses (i.e., deaths greater than expecte...