期刊名称:Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
电子版ISSN:1747-597X
出版年度:2021
卷号:16
DOI:10.1186/s13011-021-00409-3
语种:English
出版社:BioMed Central
摘要:Background
Opioid overdose (OD) and opioid OD death are major health threats to people with opioid use disorder (OUD). Socioeconomic factors are underexplored potential determinants of opioid OD. In this study, we assessed socioeconomic and other factors and their associations with incident and fatal opioid OD, in a cohort consisting of 22,079 individuals with OUD.
Methods
We performed a retrospective, longitudinal study based on Swedish national register data for the period January 2005–December 2017. We used Cox proportional hazard models to investigate the risk of incident and fatal opioid OD as a function of several individual, parental and neighborhood covariates.
Results
Univariate analysis showed that several covariates were associated with incident and fatal opioid OD. In the multivariate analysis, incident opioid OD was associated with educational attainment (Hazard ratio [HR
关键词:Drug abuse; Opioids; Socioeconomic status; Drug-related death; Poisoning; Sweden