The Relative Economy and Drug Overdose Deaths.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Overdose deaths increased exponentially in the United States to be the leading cause of adult injury deaths, and declining economic opportunity may contribute. To our knowledge, there has been no quantitative research into the impact of relative economic measures on overdose risk. Prior longitudinal studies on impact of socioeconomic conditions used fixed effects approaches that can result in biased estimates in the presence of time-varying confounders.

Methods

We estimated county-level longitudinal associations between drug overdose deaths and unemployment and labor-force nonparticipation rates by gender and racial/ethnic subgroup using longitudinal g-computation and the clustered bootstrap.

Results

We find evidence for associations between both overall an

SUBMITTER: Rudolph KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7505523 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature