Despite decades of progress, the future of life expectancy in the United States is uncertain
due to widening socioeconomic disparities in mortality, continued disparities in mortality …

Drug overdoses from opioids and stimulants are a major cause of mortality in the United
States. It is unclear if there are stable sex differences in overdose mortality for these drugs …

We examine trends in drug overdose deaths by race, gender, and geography in the United
States during the period 2013–2020. Race and gender specific crude rates were extracted …

Prescription drug use has reached historic highs in the United States—a trend linked to
increases in medicalization, institutional factors relating to the health care and …

Objectives The rate of drug overdose deaths in the USA has more than tripled since the turn
of the century, and rates are disproportionately high among the American Indian/Alaska …

Background This study examined racial/ethnic and educational disparities in US synthetic
opioid overdose mortality East and West of the Mississippi River. Methods Using restricted …

This study examined differences across Latine heritage groups (ie, Mexican, Puerto Rican,
Cuban, Dominican, Central American, South American) in rates of US drug overdose …

Background The present study examined racial/ethnic differences in US drug overdose
mortality among US-born and foreign-born men and women. Methods In this cross-sectional …

Objectives Reductions in US cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality have stagnated. While
other high life expectancy countries (HLCs) have also recently experienced a stall, the …

Objective Evaluate differences in synthetic opioid overdose rates, including semi-synthetic
heroin, by individual demographic (N= 14,665) and county-level (N= 67) characteristics in …