Machine learning takes a village: Assessing neighbourhood-level vulnerability for an overdose and infectious disease outbreak

Accurate spatiotemporal mapping of drug overdose deaths by machine learning of drug-related web-searches

(2020) David S. Campo et al.   PLoS One

Notes from the Field: HIV Diagnoses Among Persons Who Inject Drugs — Northeastern Massachusetts, 2015–2018

(2019) Kevin Cranston et al.   MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT

State gun laws, gun ownership, and mass shootings in the US: cross sectional time series

(2019) Paul M Reeping et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Applying the E-value to Assess the Robustness of Epidemiologic Fields of Inquiry to Unmeasured Confounding

(2019) Ludovic Trinquart et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Implementation of Syringe Services Programs to Prevent Rapid Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission in Rural Counties in the United States: A Modeling Study

(2019) William C Goedel et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Increased overdose mortality during the first week of the month: Revisiting the “check effect” through a spatial lens

(2019) William C. Goedel et al.   DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

The case for a medication first approach to the treatment of opioid use disorder

(2019) Rachel P. Winograd et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE

Overdose Prevention Site Acceptability among Residents and Businesses Surrounding a Proposed Site in Philadelphia, USA

(2019) Alexis M. Roth et al.   JOURNAL OF URBAN HEALTH-BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE

Increases in Online Posts About Synthetic Opioids Preceding Increases in Synthetic Opioid Death Rates: a Retrospective Observational Study

(2019) Daniel A. Bowen et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE

Injection Practices and Sexual Behaviors Among Persons with Diagnosed HIV Infection Who Inject Drugs — United States, 2015–2017

(2019) Sharoda Dasgupta et al.   MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT

Paraphernalia Laws, Criminalizing Possession and Distribution of Items Used to Consume Illicit Drugs, and Injection-Related Harm

(2019) Corey S. Davis et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Suspected heroin-related overdoses incidents in Cincinnati, Ohio: A spatiotemporal analysis

(2019) Zehang Richard Li et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Opioid Use Fueling HIV Transmission in an Urban Setting: An Outbreak of HIV Infection Among People Who Inject Drugs—Massachusetts, 2015–2018

(2019) Charles Alpren et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Increases in Acute Hepatitis C Virus Infection Related to a Growing Opioid Epidemic and Associated Injection Drug Use, United States, 2004 to 2014

(2018) Jon E. Zibbell et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Internet searches for opioids predict future emergency department heroin admissions

(2018) Sean D. Young et al.   DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

The Opioid Crisis in Black Communities

(2018) Keturah James et al.   JOURNAL OF LAW MEDICINE & ETHICS

Predictors of firearm violence in urban communities: A machine-learning approach

(2018) Dana E. Goin et al.   HEALTH & PLACE

The Syndemic of Opioid Misuse, Overdose, HCV, and HIV: Structural-Level Causes and Interventions

(2018) David C. Perlman et al.   Current HIV/AIDS Reports

Integrated Models of Care for Individuals with Opioid Use Disorder: How Do We Prevent HIV and HCV?

(2018) Katherine M. Rich et al.   Current HIV/AIDS Reports

Potential drivers of HIV acquisition in African-American women related to mass incarceration: an agent-based modelling study

(2018) Joëlla W. Adams et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Vermont Hub-and-Spoke Model of Care for Opioid Use Disorder

(2017) John R. Brooklyn et al.   Journal of Addiction Medicine

Increase in Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Fentanyl—Rhode Island, January 2012–March 2014

(2017) Melissa C Mercado et al.   PAIN MEDICINE

Cross-sectional association between ZIP code-level gentrification and homelessness among a large community-based sample of people who inject drugs in 19 US cities

(2017) Sabriya L Linton et al.   BMJ Open

HIV infection among persons who inject drugs

(2016) Don C. Des Jarlais et al.   AIDS

County-Level Vulnerability Assessment for Rapid Dissemination of HIV or HCV Infections Among Persons Who Inject Drugs, United States

(2016) Michelle M. Van Handel et al.   JAIDS-JOURNAL OF ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES

Increases in Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2010–2015

(2016) Rose A. Rudd et al.   MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT

Increases in Drug and Opioid Overdose Deaths — United States, 2000–2014

(2016) Rose A. Rudd et al.   MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT

Opioid Overdose Deaths in the City and County of San Francisco: Prevalence, Distribution, and Disparities

(2015) Adam J Visconti et al.   JOURNAL OF URBAN HEALTH-BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE

Six challenges in modelling for public health policy

(2015) C.J.E. Metcalf et al.   Epidemics

The Revolution of Hepatitis C Treatments: Review for Nurse Practitioners

(2015) Mary C. Olson et al.   JNP-Journal for Nurse Practitioners

Building Predictive Models inRUsing thecaretPackage

(2015) Max Kuhn   Journal of Statistical Software

Factors associated with hepatitis B vaccine series completion in a randomized trial for injection drug users reached through syringe exchange programs in three US cities

(2014) Sarah Bowman et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Emerging Epidemic of Hepatitis C Virus Infections Among Young Nonurban Persons Who Inject Drugs in the United States, 2006–2012

(2014) Anil G. Suryaprasad et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Cross-validation pitfalls when selecting and assessing regression and classification models

(2014) Damjan Krstajic et al.   Journal of Cheminformatics

Injection Drug Use and Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Young Adult Injectors: Using Evidence to Inform Comprehensive Prevention

(2013) Kimberly Page et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Strong rules for discarding predictors in lasso-type problems

(2011) Robert Tibshirani et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES B-STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY