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Identifying the root causes of drug overdoes health inequities and related social determinants of health : a literature review
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August 2021
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Description:Fatal drug overdoses have long been a public health crisis in the United States. From 1999 – 2018, nearly 450,000 people died from overdoses in the United States. (Mattson CL., Tanz LJ., Quinn K., Kariisa M., Patel P., 2021) In 2019 alone, there were 70,630 drug overdose deaths. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021b) While public health efforts have brought attention to drug addiction as a disease and have improved access to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and services, many health inequities have not been addressed.
To investigate this gap in knowledge, the Division of Overdose Prevention (DOP) and National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) partnered with the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) to conduct a preliminary literature review to inform internal DOP and NCIPC processes and future guidance for academia, state and local health departments, and CDC staff.
NACCHO would like to thank the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for providing financial support for this work, under cooperative agreement CDC #6NU38OT000306-02-01. We would also like to thank the NACCHO Injury and Violence Prevention and Communications teams for their assistance in drafting this report. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the CDC.
IdentifyingtheRootCauses-ofDrugOverdoseHealthInequities.pdf
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