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- Title
Understanding the Rural-Urban Differences in Nonmedical Prescription Opioid Use and Abuse in the United States.
- Authors
Keyes, Katherine M.; Cerdá, Magdalena; Brady, Joanne E.; Havens, Jennifer R.; Galea, Sandro
- Abstract
Nonmedical prescription opioid misuse remains a growing public problem in need of action and is concentrated in areas of US states with large rural populations such as Kentucky, West Virginia, Alaska, and Oklahoma. We developed hypotheses regarding the influence of 4 factors: (1) greater opioid prescription in rural areas, creating availability from which illegal markets can arise; (2) an out-migration of young adults; (3) greater rural social and kinship network connections, which may facilitate drug diversion and distribution; and (4) economic stressors that may create vulnerability to drug use more generally. A systematic consideration of the contexts that create differences in availability, access, and preferences is critical to understanding how drug use context varies across geography.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SUBSTANCE abuse risk factors; SUBSTANCE abuse; METROPOLITAN areas; NARCOTICS; PAIN; RURAL conditions; SELF medication; FAMILY relations
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2014, Vol 104, Issue 2, pe52
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2013.301709