Using drug checking data to model the relationship between the prevalence of fentanyl and xylazine to drug overdose deaths in New York City
These findings provide evidence that point-of-care drug checking can produce data that correlate with the drug-involved overdose death rate. This predictive capacity, as well as the timeliness of point-of-care drug checking data, lend support for the role of drug checking as both a harm reduction service and public health monitoring tool.
Authors
- Jeffery Sauer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8581-6919)
- Izza Zaidi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7898-4386)
- Leonardo Dominguez Gomez
- Yarelix Estrada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8199-1089)
- Ellenie Tuazon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8779-1604)
- Hannah Helmy
- Brittany Okon
Institutions
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Drug Policy
- Published
- 2026-03-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2026.105206
- Primary Topic
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00