Educational Attainment and US Drug Overdose Deaths, in JAMA Health Forum (via RAND)
key takeaway: "Lower educational attainment was found to be associated with higher growth in overdose deaths. As the opioid crisis has transitioned to fentanyl and polysubstance use, overdose deaths have become more prevalent in groups with lower socioeconomic status, potentially exacerbating existing life-expectancy disparities."
Growth in Suicide Rates Among Children During the Illicit Opioid Crisis, in Demography (via RAND)
key takeaway: "Reformulation of OxyContin and the accompanying shift to illicit opioids explain about half of the growth in child suicide rates since 2010."