Opioid and Drug Epidemic

This project aims to understand the economic and social drivers of the opioid and drug epidemic in North America through advanced analytics, visualization and simulation.

The opioid and drug epidemic are modern public health crises. At DASH lab, we use advanced analytics and computational tools to investigate the root causes of these epidemics and assisting in changing the trajectory.

References

2022

  1. Exponential growth of drug overdose poisoning and opportunities for intervention
    Hawre Jalal, and Donald S Burke
    Addiction, 2022
  2. Reply commentary by Jalal and Burke.
    Donald S Burke, and Hawre Jalal
    The International Journal on Drug Policy, 2022

2021

  1. Carfentanil and the rise and fall of overdose deaths in the United States
    Hawre Jalal, and Donald S Burke
    Addiction, 2021

2020

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    Age and generational patterns of overdose death risk from opioids and other drugs
    Hawre Jalal, Jeanine M Buchanich, David R Sinclair, Mark S Roberts, and Donald S Burke
    Nature medicine, 2020

2018

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    Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the United States from 1979 through 2016
    Hawre Jalal, Jeanine M Buchanich, Mark S Roberts, Lauren C Balmert, Kun Zhang, and Donald S Burke
    Science, 2018