Twenty-Year Trends in Drug Overdose Fatalities Among Older Adults in the US

Keith Humphreys; Chelsea L Shover

doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.5159

Twenty-Year Trends in Drug Overdose Fatalities Among Older Adults in the US

JAMA Psychiatry. 2023 May 1;80(5):518-520. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.5159.

Authors

Keith Humphreys^{1

2}, Chelsea L Shover³

Affiliations

¹ Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California.
² Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California.
³ Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles.

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Plain language summary

This study uses data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research database to assess 20-year trends in drug overdose fatalities among older adults in the US.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Aged
Analgesics, Opioid
Drug Overdose* / epidemiology
Humans
United States / epidemiology

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid

Plain language summary

Publication types

MeSH terms

Substances

Grants and funding