County-level factors associated with a mismatch between opioid overdose mortality and availability of opioid treatment facilities

ConclusionAssessing mismatch between treatment availability and need provides useful information to characterize counties that require greater public health investment. Interventions to reduce overdose mortality are unlikely to be effective if they do not take into account diverse upstream factors, including sociodemographics, disease burden, and geographic context of communities.
Source: PLoS One - Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Source Type: research