Spatiotemporal Analysis Exploring the Effect of Law Enforcement Drug Market Disruptions on Overdose, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2020-2021
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 113(7), 750–758.
MeSH headings : Humans; Analgesics, Opioid / therapeutic use; Law Enforcement; Indiana / epidemiology; Retrospective Studies; Cohort Studies; Naloxone; Drug Overdose / epidemiology; Drug Overdose / drug therapy; Central Nervous System Stimulants; Spatio-Temporal Analysis; Narcotic Antagonists / therapeutic use
TL;DR:
Test the hypothesis that law enforcement efforts to disrupt local drug markets by seizing opioids or stimulants are associated with increased spatiotemporal clustering of overdose events in the surrounding geographic area to determine whether they exacerbate an ongoing overdose epidemic and negatively affect the nation's life expectancy.
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Objectives. To test the hypothesis that law enforcement efforts to disrupt local drug markets by seizing opioids or stimulants are associated with increased spatiotemporal clustering of overdose events in the surrounding geographic area.