Why are Massachusetts opioid prescribing rates higher in rural versus urban areas?

• Alicia Sasser Modestino ,

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

  * E-mail: a.modestino@northeastern.edu

  Affiliation Department of Economics, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8998-3282

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• Gary J. Young,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Strategic Management and Healthcare Systems, D’Amore McKim School of Business, and Northeastern Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research, Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Md Mahmudul Hasan,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Validation

  Affiliation College of Pharmacy Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Jiesheng Shi,

  Roles Data curation, Software

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Md Noor E. Alam

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5353-9710

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