Recent changes in trends of opioid overdose deaths in North America.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As several regulatory and environmental changes have occurred in North America, trends in overdose deaths were examined in the United States (US), Ontario and British Columbia (BC), including changes in consumption levels of prescription opioids (PO) and overdose deaths, changes in correlations between consumption levels of PO and overdose deaths and modeled differences between observed and predicted overdose deaths if no changes had occurred.

Methods

Consumption levels of PO included defined daily doses for statistical purposes per million inhabitants per day for the US and Canada (2001-2015). Overdose deaths included opioid overdose deaths for the US (2001-2017) and Ontario (2003-2017) and illicit drug overdose deaths for BC (2001-2017). The analytic techniques

SUBMITTER: Imtiaz S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7457770 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature