The rise in non-fatal and fatal overdoses involving stimulants with and without opioids in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To examine trends and recent changes in non-fatal and fatal stimulant overdose rates with and without opioids to improve the descriptive characterization of the US overdose epidemic.

Design

Secondary analysis of non-fatal (2006-16) and fatal (2006-17) drug overdose trends, focusing on the most recent years of data available to examine rate changes by demographics (2015-16 for non-fatal and 2016-17 for fatal).

Setting

Non-fatal drug overdoses from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's Nationwide Emergency Department Sample; drug overdose deaths from the National Vital Statistics System.

Participants/cases

International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) and Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification/Procedure Cod

SUBMITTER: Hoots B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11301974 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature