
Postoverdose Outreach Programs and Subsequent Opioid Overdose Deaths in Massachusetts Municipalities
JAMA Psychiatry Author Interviews
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The Effects of Municipal Data on OED Response Rates
We selected 93 municipalities, and they were selected based on the threshold of 30 or more opioid-related emergency medical services responses in the year of 2015 when we decided to apply for the funding. We want to focus on those communities that already share some burden of opioid overdose among the community residents. And as study periods from 2013, we followed these communities all the way to the end of second quarter of 2019. So it's still a lot of data coming in.
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