Law enforcement fentanyl seizures and overdose mortality in US counties, 2013-2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The spread of illicitly manufactured fentanyl is driving steep increases in US overdose deaths. Fentanyl seizures are correlated with state-level opioid-related mortality; however, more granular seizure surveillance information has the potential to better inform overdose prevention and harm reduction efforts.

Methods

Using data on fentanyl pill and powder seizures from High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA), we tested associations between seizure prevalence and overdose mortality, from 2013 to 2020. The primary exposure-seizure burden-was constructed by identifying counties having high (above the median) prevalence of pill, powder, or combined pill/powder seizure burden per 100,000 population. Poisson models accounted for county demographic, law enforcement

SUBMITTER: Bruzelius E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11422803 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature