Exploring Opioid Overdose Incidence in a Cohort of People Who Inject Drugs
Submitted by Edie
- 20 March 2020
This seminar provides a preliminary examination of the range of information available on opioid overdose in Australia’s largest and only active cohort study of people who use drugs.
Penny Hill from the Burnet Institute explores a range of self-report and linked data including data collected on ambulance attendances, emergency department presentations and deaths.
Findings around opioid overdose incidence are presented along with predictors of overdose (socio- demographic characteristics, alcohol and other drug use, and health service-related factors) and some preliminary consideration of interrelations between different data sources.