Evolution of an epidemic: Understanding the opioid epidemic in the United States and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on opioid-related mortality

• Rachel Laing ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rlaing@mgh.harvard.edu

  Affiliations Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5181-2740

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• Christl A. Donnelly

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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