Law Enforcement Drug Seizures and Opioid-Involved Overdose Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Opioid-involved overdose mortality has been on the rise for 2 decades in the US, exacerbated by an unregulated drug supply that is unpredictable and has increasingly contained highly potent fentanyl analogs starting a decade ago.

Objective

To determine whether there is a geospatial association between law enforcement drug seizures and opioid-involved overdose mortality in San Francisco.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used location- and time-stamped overdose mortality data from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and publicly available crime data from the San Francisco Police Department between 2020 and 2023 to assess whether location and time of law enforcement drug seizures were associated with subsequent opioid-involved

SUBMITTER: Kral AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11923703 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature