Opioid crisis

Before COVID 19 pandemic, it had been the biggest public health crisis in the US, killing well more than 50,000 people via overdose.

Jalal et al. showed that the overdose crisis has been brewing over a long time, showing an exponential growth since 70s and 80s. (jalal2018changing)

How should we mitigate the crisis? Have Opioid related policies been successful? See Lee2021systematic

Can we predict opioid overdose? See Opioid overdose prediction.

It is also intertwined with the historical biases, most notably the racial bias. See Biases in pain treatment

COVID 19 pandemic has been fueling the crisis even further¹

Racial difference

• Townsend2022racial examines the racial/ethnic/geographic trend in overdose 2007-2019.

To read

• There Is More Than One Opioid Crisis: To better tackle the epidemic, Kentucky needed to know which drugs were causing lethal overdoses.
• Schnell2018addressing
• deVaan2019does