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The Royal Society, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2250(477), 2021

DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2021.0195

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A modified two-process Knox test for investigating the relationship between law enforcement opioid seizures and overdoses

Journal article published in 2021 by G. Mohler ORCID, S. Mishra ORCID, B. Ray, L. Magee, P. Huynh, M. Canada, D. O’Donnell, S. Flaxman
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Abstract

Recent research has shown an association between monthly law enforcement drug seizure events and accidental drug overdose deaths using cross-sectional data in a single state, whereby increased seizures correlated with more deaths. In this study, we conduct statistical analysis of street-level data on law enforcement drug seizures, along with street-level data on fatal and non-fatal overdose events, to determine possible micro-level causal associations between opioid-related drug seizures and overdoses. For this purpose, we introduce a novel, modified two-process Knox test that controls for self-excitation to measure clustering of overdoses nearby in space and time following law enforcement seizures. We observe a small, but statistically significant ( p < 0.001), effect of 17.7 excess non-fatal overdoses per 1000 law enforcement seizures within three weeks and 250 m of a seizure. We discuss the potential causal mechanism for this association along with policy implications.