Spatiotemporal Trends in Opioid Overdose Deaths by Race for Counties in Ohio.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The opioid epidemic continues to be an ongoing public health crisis in the United States. Initially, large increases in overdose death rates were observed in largely rural, White communities, leading to the initial perception that the opioid epidemic was primarily a problem for the White population. Recent findings have shown increasing rates of overdose death among Blacks. We compare overdose rates between Blacks and Whites and explore county-level spatiotemporal heterogeneity in Ohio.

Methods

We obtained county-level opioid overdose death counts for Whites and Blacks from 2007 to 2018 in Ohio. We fit a Bayesian multivariate spatial rates model to estimate annual standardized mortality ratios for Whites and Blacks for each county. We accounted for correlation bet

SUBMITTER: Kline D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9040314 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature