Trends in Drug Overdose Deaths Among US Adolescents, January 2010 to June 2021

Joseph Friedman; Morgan Godvin; Chelsea L Shover; Joseph P Gone; Helena Hansen; David L Schriger

doi:10.1001/jama.2022.2847

Trends in Drug Overdose Deaths Among US Adolescents, January 2010 to June 2021

JAMA. 2022 Apr 12;327(14):1398-1400. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.2847.

Authors

Joseph Friedman¹, Morgan Godvin², Chelsea L Shover³, Joseph P Gone⁴, Helena Hansen¹, David L Schriger^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Social Medicine and Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles.
² Local Public Safety Coordinating Council, Portland, Oregon.
³ Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, University of California, Los Angeles.
⁴ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.
⁶ Associate Editor, JAMA.

Abstract

This study assesses trends in drug overdose deaths among US adolescents aged 14 to 18 years from January 2010 to June 2021, by substance type and race and ethnicity, using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WONDER database.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Analgesics, Opioid / adverse effects
Drug Overdose* / epidemiology
Drug Overdose* / mortality
Humans
United States / epidemiology

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid

Abstract

MeSH terms

Substances

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