Open AccessOpioid Overdose Mortality Among Former North Carolina Inmates: 2000–2015
Author(s) -
Shabbar I. Ranapurwala,
Meghan Shanahan,
Apostolos A. Alexandridis,
Scott Proescholdbell,
Rebecca B. Naumann,
Daniel Edwards,
Stephen W. Marshall
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2018.304514
Subject(s) - prison , medicine , heroin , confidence interval , substance abuse , medical examiner , hazard ratio , demography , drug overdose , injury prevention , psychiatry , poison control , emergency medicine , psychology , drug , criminology , sociology
To examine differences in rates of opioid overdose death (OOD) between former North Carolina (NC) inmates and NC residents and evaluate factors associated with postrelease OOD.