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The effect of evictions on accidental drug and alcohol mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the relationship between county-level eviction rates and drug and alcohol mortality rates.

Data sources

Eviction rates from 2003 to 2016 provided by the Princeton University Eviction Lab were merged with Multiple Cause-of-Death Mortality Files and aggregated to the county-year level.

Study design

All opioid (prescription and heroin), cocaine, psychostimulant, benzodiazepine, antidepressant, and alcohol poisoning-related deaths per 100 000 people, eviction rates, and socioeconomic indicators were merged at the county-year level from 2003 to 2016. We estimated a series of mortality rate models with county and year fixed effects and used a control function (2SRI) method to adjust for the endogeneity of eviction rates.

Data collection/extraction methods

We matched retrospectively collected datasets.

Principal findings

Higher levels of eviction rates were consistently associated with higher rates of mortality across six of nine substance categories studied when all counties were combined. Subanalysis by USDA population density measures indicated this positive association was almost entirely driven by urban counties; few systematic associations between the eviction rate levels and mortality were observed for suburban or rural counties.

Conclusions

Risk of eviction appears to exacerbate the current "deaths of despair" crisis associated with substance use. Proposed changes to Housing and Urban Development policy that are expected to substantially increase the risk of eviction may worsen an already-acute mortality crisis.

SUBMITTER: Bradford AC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6980953 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The effect of evictions on accidental drug and alcohol mortality.

Bradford Ashley C AC Bradford W David WD

Health services research 20191230 1

<h4>Objective</h4>To assess the relationship between county-level eviction rates and drug and alcohol mortality rates.<h4>Data sources</h4>Eviction rates from 2003 to 2016 provided by the Princeton University Eviction Lab were merged with Multiple Cause-of-Death Mortality Files and aggregated to the county-year level.<h4>Study design</h4>All opioid (prescription and heroin), cocaine, psychostimulant, benzodiazepine, antidepressant, and alcohol poisoning-related deaths per 100 000 people, evictio ...[more]

PMID: 31889303

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The effect of evictions on accidental drug and alcohol mortality.

Objective

Data sources

Study design

Data collection/extraction methods

Principal findings

Conclusions

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The effect of evictions on accidental drug and alcohol mortality.

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