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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03924 |
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| author | McCabe, Lucas H. Masuda, Naoki Casillas, Shannon Danneman, Nathan Alic, Alen Law, Royal |
| author_facet | McCabe, Lucas H. Masuda, Naoki Casillas, Shannon Danneman, Nathan Alic, Alen Law, Royal |
| contents | We present a nation-wide network analysis of non-fatal opioid-involved overdose journeys in the United States. Leveraging a unique proprietary dataset of Emergency Medical Services incidents, we construct a journey-to-overdose geospatial network capturing nearly half a million opioid-involved overdose events spanning 2018-2023. We analyze the structure and sociological profiles of the nodes, which are counties or their equivalents, characterize the distribution of overdose journey lengths, and investigate changes in the journey network between 2018 and 2023. Our findings include that authority and hub nodes identified by the HITS algorithm tend to be located in urban areas and involved in overdose journeys with particularly long geographical distances. |
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| publishDate | 2024 |
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| spellingShingle | Network Analysis of U.S. Non-Fatal Opioid-Involved Overdose Journeys, 2018-2023 McCabe, Lucas H. Masuda, Naoki Casillas, Shannon Danneman, Nathan Alic, Alen Law, Royal Social and Information Networks Physics and Society We present a nation-wide network analysis of non-fatal opioid-involved overdose journeys in the United States. Leveraging a unique proprietary dataset of Emergency Medical Services incidents, we construct a journey-to-overdose geospatial network capturing nearly half a million opioid-involved overdose events spanning 2018-2023. We analyze the structure and sociological profiles of the nodes, which are counties or their equivalents, characterize the distribution of overdose journey lengths, and investigate changes in the journey network between 2018 and 2023. Our findings include that authority and hub nodes identified by the HITS algorithm tend to be located in urban areas and involved in overdose journeys with particularly long geographical distances. |
| title | Network Analysis of U.S. Non-Fatal Opioid-Involved Overdose Journeys, 2018-2023 |
| topic | Social and Information Networks Physics and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03924 |