County-level factors associated with a mismatch between opioid overdose mortality and availability of opioid treatment facilities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Opioid overdose deaths in the United States remain a major public health crisis. Little is known about counties with high rates of opioid overdose mortality but low availability of opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment facilities. We sought to identify characteristics of United States (US) counties with high rates of opioid overdose mortality and low rates of opioid treatment facilities.

Methods

Rates of overdose mortality from 3,130 US counties were compared with availability of opioid treatment facilities that prescribed or allowed medications for OUD (MOUD), from 2018-2019. The outcome variable, "risk-availability mismatch" county, was a binary indicator of a high rate (above national average) of opioid overdose mortality with a low (below national average) rate

SUBMITTER: Rizk JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10997118 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature