Racial and Ethnic Differences in Heroin, Methamphetamine, and Cocaine Use, Treatment, and Mortality Trends in 3 National Data Sources-United States, 2010-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As overdose deaths continue to rise, public health officials need comprehensive surveillance data to design effective prevention, harm reduction, and treatment strategies. Disparities across race and ethnicity groups, as well as trends in substance use, treatment, or overdose deaths, have been examined individually, but reports rarely compare findings across multiple substances or data sources.

Objective

To provide a broad assessment of the overdose crisis, we describe trends in substance use, treatment, and overdose mortality across racial and ethnic groups for multiple substances.

Research design

We conducted a longitudinal, cross-sectional analysis comparing trends.

Subjects

We identified self-reported use from the National Survey on Drug Use and

SUBMITTER: Shearer RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10922552 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature