Drug Overdose Deaths Before and After Shelter-in-Place Orders During the COVID-19 Pandemic in San Francisco

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 May 3;4(5):e2110452. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.10452.

Authors

Ayesha Appa¹, Luke N Rodda^{2

3}, Caroline Cawley⁴, Barry Zevin⁵, Phillip O Coffin⁵, Monica Gandhi¹, Elizabeth Imbert¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine, University of California San Francisco.
² Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, San Francisco, California.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
⁵ San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study evaluates the association of the shelter-in-place order with fatal drug overdoses in San Francisco, California.

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid
COVID-19*
Drug Overdose* / epidemiology
Emergency Shelter
Humans
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2
San Francisco / epidemiology

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid

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