Trends in Drug Overdose Mortality in Ohio During the First 7 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Janet M Currie; Molly K Schnell; Hannes Schwandt; Jonathan Zhang

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.7112

Trends in Drug Overdose Mortality in Ohio During the First 7 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Apr 1;4(4):e217112. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.7112.

Authors

Janet M Currie^{1

2}, Molly K Schnell^{2

3}, Hannes Schwandt^{2

4}, Jonathan Zhang¹

Affiliations

¹ Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
² National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
⁴ School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study uses data from the Ohio Department of Health to evaluate trends in drug overdose mortality in that state by type of drug and user age during the first 7 months of the COVID-19 epidemic.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
COVID-19*
Communicable Disease Control / statistics & numerical data
Cross-Sectional Studies
Drug Overdose / mortality*
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Mortality / trends*
Ohio / epidemiology
SARS-CoV-2
Time Factors*
Young Adult