Fatal opioid overdoses in the U.S. declined more than reported between 2017 and 2018.

ABSTRACT: Background: In U.S. death records, many drug overdoses do not have classified drug involvement, which challenges surveillance of opioid overdoses across time and space.Objective: To estimate the 2017-2018 change in opioid overdose deaths that accounts for probable opioid involvement in unclassified drug overdose deaths.Methods: In this retrospective design study, data on all drug overdose decedents from 2017-2018 in the U.S. were used to calculate the year-to-year change in known opioid overdoses, predict opioid involvement in unclassified drug overdoses, and estimate the year-to-year change in corrected opioid overdoses, which include both known and predicted opioid deaths. We used the Multiple Cause of Death (MCOD) data from CDC.Results: We estimated that the

SUBMITTER: Boslett A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9797028 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature