Healio (7/28, Downey) reports, “Following the 2021 record-setting report of opioid overdose deaths in the United States, experts are predicting higher rates of overdose deaths,” researchers concluded in findings published online July 28 in a research letter in JAMA Network Open. For the study, investigators “used data from CDC’s WONDER database for 3,147 United States counties and county equivalents and categorized them on a six-point urbanicity scale.” The study also revealed that “counties of urbanicity experienced statistically significant annual overdose death rate growth.”
Related Links:
— “Overdose rate will continue to grow: ‘It’s going to mean mass death’ “Ken Downey Jr., Healio, July 28, 2022