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01-07-2020 | Opioids | Concise Research Report
Occupational Patterns of Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths Among Arizona Medicaid Enrollees, 2008–2017
Authors:
Rohan Chalasani, Wei-Hsuan Lo-Ciganic, MS, PhD, James L. Huang, PhD, Jingchuan Guo, PhD, MD, MPH, Jeremy C. Weiss, MD, PhD, Courtney C. Kuza, PhD, MPH, Walid F. Gellad, MD, MPH
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 7/2020
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Excerpt
Nearly 400,000 individuals died from opioid overdose in the USA from 1999 to 2017.
1 Understanding the populations most affected is crucial to developing targeted interventions. Prior studies examining occupational patterns of opioid-related overdose deaths were limited because they did not examine unpaid occupations potentially relevant to opioid overdose (e.g., homemakers, students, unemployed) or changes in occupational patterns over time.
2‐4 We aimed to more comprehensively examine occupational patterns of opioid-related overdose deaths among Arizona Medicaid enrollees with opioid prescriptions from 2008 to 2017. Over that time period, opioid-related overdose deaths in Arizona sharply increased from 586 in 2008 to 949 in 2017.
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