Socioeconomic correlates of incident and fatal opioid overdose among Swedish people with opioid use disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Opioid overdose (OD) and opioid OD death are major health threats to people with opioid use disorder (OUD). Socioeconomic factors are underexplored potential determinants of opioid OD. In this study, we assessed socioeconomic and other factors and their associations with incident and fatal opioid OD, in a cohort consisting of 22,079 individuals with OUD.

Methods

We performed a retrospective, longitudinal study based on Swedish national register data for the period January 2005-December 2017. We used Cox proportional hazard models to investigate the risk of incident and fatal opioid OD as a function of several individual, parental and neighborhood covariates.

Results

Univariate analysis showed that several covariates were associated with incident and fatal o

SUBMITTER: Dahlman D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8474855 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature