Housing Instability, Structural Vulnerability, and Non-Fatal Opioid Overdoses Among People Who Use Heroin in Washington Heights, New York City

Socioeconomic risk factors for fatal opioid overdoses in the United States: Findings from the Mortality Disparities in American Communities Study (MDAC)

(2020) Sean F. Altekruse et al.   PLoS One

Fatal overdose prevention and experience with naloxone: A cross-sectional study from a community-based cohort of people who inject drugs in Baltimore, Maryland

(2020) Megan Buresh et al.   PLoS One

Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2017–2018

(2020) Nana Wilson et al.   MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT

Racial Differences in Opioid Overdose Deaths in New York City, 2017

(2019) Bennett Allen et al.   JAMA Internal Medicine

Increased non-fatal overdose risk associated with involuntary drug treatment in a longitudinal study with people who inject drugs

(2018) Claudia Rafful et al.   ADDICTION

Young adults' opioid use trajectories: From nonmedical prescription opioid use to heroin, drug injection, drug treatment and overdose

(2018) Honoria Guarino et al.   ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS

The Opioid Crisis in Black Communities

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

Overdose Deaths Involving Opioids, Cocaine, and Psychostimulants — United States, 2015–2016

(2018) Puja Seth et al.   MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Prevalence Trends for Heroin use and Non-Medical use of Prescription Opioids Among Entrants to Opioid Treatment Programs, 2005–2016

(2017) Enrique R. Pouget et al.   SUBSTANCE USE & MISUSE

Predictors of transition to heroin use among initially non-opioid dependent illicit pharmaceutical opioid users: A natural history study

(2016) Robert G. Carlson et al.   DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

Non-fatal overdose as a risk factor for subsequent fatal overdose among people who inject drugs

(2016) Alexander Caudarella et al.   DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

Nonmedical Prescription Opioid Use in Childhood and Early Adolescence Predicts Transitions to Heroin Use in Young Adulthood: A National Study

(2015) Magdalena Cerdá et al.   JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS

Interventions to prevent the initiation of injection drug use: A systematic review

(2013) Dan Werb et al.   DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

The longitudinal association between homelessness, injection drug use, and injection-related risk behavior among persons with a history of injection drug use in Baltimore, MD

(2013) Sabriya L. Linton et al.   DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

Global burden of disease attributable to illicit drug use and dependence: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

(2013) Louisa Degenhardt et al.   LANCET

Mortality Among Homeless Adults in Boston

(2013) Travis P. Baggett et al.   JAMA Internal Medicine

Factors associated with history of non-fatal overdose among young nonmedical users of prescription drugs

(2012) Karol Silva et al.   DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

Housing Instability among People Who Inject Drugs: Results from the Australian Needle and Syringe Program Survey

(2012) Libby Topp et al.   JOURNAL OF URBAN HEALTH-BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE

Commentary on Genberg et al. (2011): The structural vulnerability imposed by hypersegregated US inner-city neighborhoods - a theoretical and practical challenge for substance abuse research

(2011) PHILIPPE BOURGOIS et al.   ADDICTION

Rates and correlates of mortality amongst heroin users: Findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study (ATOS), 2001–2009

(2010) Shane Darke et al.   DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

Injection drug use among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting

(2009) Thomas Kerr et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH