Overdose and COVID-19 in Baja California, Mexico: The Need for New Methodologies for Understanding Local Trends.

Am J Public Health

Jaime Arredondo Sanchez Lira is an assistant professor at the School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and a Canada research chair on substance use and health systems at the Canadian Institute of Substance Use Research. David Goodman-Meza is with the Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles.

Published: June 2024

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