Loneliness and fearfulness are associated with non-fatal drug overdose among people who inject drugs.

Oluwaseun Falade-Nwulia Kathleen M Ward Karla D Wagner Hamidreza Karimi-SariJeffrey HsuMark SulkowskiCarl LatkinEvaristus Nwulia

Published in: PloS one (2024)

In this study of PWID loneliness and fearfulness were significantly related to the number of reported overdose events. These factors could be targeted in future interventions.

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