{"id":9258,"date":"2021-04-16T11:57:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T18:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9258"},"modified":"2021-04-19T11:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T18:58:37","slug":"covid-19-and-the-drug-overdose-crisis-uncovering-the-deadliest-months-in-the-united-states-january-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/16\/covid-19-and-the-drug-overdose-crisis-uncovering-the-deadliest-months-in-the-united-states-january-july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 and the Drug Overdose Crisis: Uncovering the Deadliest Months in the United States, January-July 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An estimated 9,000 people in the US died from drug overdose in May 2020, representing a 58% increase over May 2019. The largest number of deaths occurred in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Monthly deaths and pandemic-related spikes were estimated by disaggregating provisional CDC data that were aggregated into 12-month rolling sums.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Friedman and Akre. (Apr 15, 2021). COVID-19 and the Drug Overdose Crisis: Uncovering the Deadliest Months in the United States, January-July 2020. American Journal of Public Health. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2105\/AJPH.2021.306256\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2105\/AJPH.2021.306256<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 9,000 people in the US died from drug overdose in May 2020, representing a 58% increase over May 2019. The largest number of deaths occurred in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Monthly deaths and pandemic-related spikes were estimated by disaggregating provisional CDC data that were aggregated into 12-month rolling sums. Friedman and Akre&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/16\/covid-19-and-the-drug-overdose-crisis-uncovering-the-deadliest-months-in-the-united-states-january-july-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-9258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9259,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions\/9259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9258"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}