Forecasted and Observed Drug Overdose Deaths in the US During the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020

Abigail R Cartus; Yu Li; Alexandria Macmadu; William C Goedel; Bennett Allen; Magdalena Cerdá; Brandon D L Marshall

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.3418

Forecasted and Observed Drug Overdose Deaths in the US During the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Mar 1;5(3):e223418. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.3418.

Authors

Abigail R Cartus¹, Yu Li¹, Alexandria Macmadu¹, William C Goedel¹, Bennett Allen^{2

3}, Magdalena Cerdá^{2

3}, Brandon D L Marshall¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island.
² Department of Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York.
³ Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study uses data from the National Vital Statistics System to compare forecasted numbers of drug overdose deaths in the US in the latter 43 weeks of 2020 with the observed number of overdose deaths in that period.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
COVID-19 / epidemiology*
Cross-Sectional Studies
Drug Overdose / epidemiology*
Female
Forecasting
Humans
Pandemics*
SARS-CoV-2
United States / epidemiology
Young Adult

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding