Fatal opioid poisoning: a counterfactual model to estimate the preventive effect of treatment for opioid use disorder in England

Abstract

Between April 2008 and March 2011, a counterfactual model shows that the English public treatment system for opioid use disorder prevented an average of 880 deaths each year from opioid-related poisoning. Counterfactual models of mortality prevention can be used for outcome and performance monitoring of substance use disorder treatment systems.