Background: Negative health outcomes associated with the use of both prescribed and
nonprescribed opioids are increasingly prevalent. We examined long-term trends in opioid …

Introduction: High levels of income inequality and increased opioid-related harm across
Canada bring into question the role of socioeconomic status (SES) in the opioid epidemic …

Background This study aims to assess the association of community social vulnerability and
community prescription opioid availability with individual non-fatal or fatal opioid overdose …

Introduction Over the past decade, there has been mounting recognition that opioid use and
related mortality and morbidity is a significant public health problem in rural, non-urban …

The objective of this initiative was to conduct a comprehensive opioid overdose vulnerability
assessment in Indiana and evaluate spatial accessibility to opioid use disorder treatment …

Hospitalizations due to opioid poisonings are increasing. While considerable information is
available on the demographic and geographic distribution of opioid-related events, national …

Objective To identify the relationships between county-level area deprivation and patterns of
both opioid prescriptions and drug-poisoning mortality. Design, setting and participants For …

Background Understanding relationships between individual-level demographic,
socioeconomic status (SES) and US opioid fatalities can inform interventions in response to …

Conclusion In summary, we found large regional variations in opioid prescribing and
outcomes and a strong association between regions with high opioid prescription utilization …

Two of the articles that appear in this issue, by authors Ye et al. 2 and Orpana et al., 3
estimate the burden associated with opioid harms. The article by Ye et al. 2 examines the …