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. 2020 Oct 27;324(16):1674-1677.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.17694.

Analysis of Drug Test Results Before and After the US Declaration of a National Emergency Concerning the COVID-19 Outbreak

Jacob J Wainwright  1 , Meriam Mikre  1 , Penn Whitley  2 , Eric Dawson  2 , Angela Huskey  2 , Andrew Lukowiak  2 , Brett P Giroir  1
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Analysis of Drug Test Results Before and After the US Declaration of a National Emergency Concerning the COVID-19 Outbreak

Jacob J Wainwright et al. JAMA. .

Abstract

This substance use epidemiology study uses a commercial urine drug testing (UDT) service’s data to compare UDT results for cocaine, fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine before vs after US declaration of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a national emergency among patients diagnosed with or at risk of substance use disorders.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Mr Wainwright and Dr Giroir reported the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has a data donation agreement with Millennium Health to receive near real-time drug test data to enhance efforts and target approaches in fighting the overdose crisis in the US. This donation is an effort to improve the work of the DHHS with state and local officials on drug trends in their areas and to target coordination of preventive health care resources to avoid overdoses. Mr Whitley and Drs Dawson, Huskey, and Lukowiak reported being employees of Millennium Health LLC. No other disclosures were reported.

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