Evolving trends in drug overdose mortality in the USA from 2000 to 2020: an age-period-cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Drug overdose deaths in the USA have increased rapidly in the past 20 years, and understanding patterns and trends in mortality is essential to develop policy responses. This study aimed to determine whether cohort patterns in mortality due to drug overdose have changed in the past two decades and assess these patterns by race and sex.

Methods

The national records of accidental drug overdose death were extracted from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Mortality Data for 2000-2020. Age-period-cohort analysis was performed to examine independent effects of age, period and birth cohort on accidental drug overdose mortality.

Findings

The number of accidental drug overdose deaths increased by 622% between 2000 and 2

SUBMITTER: Fujita-Imazu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10359729 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature