Modeling Mitigation Strategies to Reduce Opioid-Related Morbidity and Mortality in U.S.

A decision analytic dynamic Markov model on the US population aged 12 years or older was used to project the number of fatal overdoses caused by any opioid between 2020 – 2029 and project the number of deaths that can be averted by prescribing restrictions, naloxone distribution, and expansion of...