The association between community social vulnerability and prescription opioid availability with individual opioid overdose.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aims to assess the association of community social vulnerability and community prescription opioid availability with individual non-fatal or fatal opioid overdose.

Methods

We identified patients 12 years of age or older from the Oregon All Payer Claims database (APCD) linked to other public health datasets. Community-level characteristics were captured in an exposure period (EP) (1/1/2018-12/31/2018) and included: census tract-level social vulnerability domains (socio-economic status, household composition, racial and ethnic minority status, and housing type and transportation), census tract-level prescriptions and community-level opioid use disorder (OUD) diagnoses per 100 capita binned into quartiles or quintiles. We employed Cox models to estimate th

SUBMITTER: El Ibrahimi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10754350 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature