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. 2025 Feb 3;8(2):e2458090.
doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.58090.

Recent Drug Overdose Mortality Decline Compared With Pre-COVID-19 Trend

Mathew V Kiang  1 , Keith Humphreys  2   3
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Recent Drug Overdose Mortality Decline Compared With Pre-COVID-19 Trend

Mathew V Kiang et al. JAMA Netw Open. .
No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study compares annual state-level fatal drug overdose rates from 2020 through 2023 with the expected fatal drug overdose rates based on trajectories before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Kiang reported receiving grant R00DA051534 from the National Institutes of Health outside the submitted work. No other disclosures were reported.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Summary of the Observed Mortality Rate Compared With the Expected Mortality Rate for 2020 Through 2023 for Each State
Expected mortality is based on a joinpoint regression model fit to data from 1999 to 2019 and estimated for 2020 to 2023.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. Observed vs Estimated Drug-Related Mortality Rates by State, 2020 to 2023
The dotted line indicates where the observed and expected mortality rates are equal, and the dots indicate observations that were statistically higher (blue) or lower (orange) and not statistically different (gray).
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