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The association between temperature and alcohol- and substance-related disorder hospital visits in New York State

Authors: Robbie M. Parks, Sebastian T. Rowland1, Vivian Do, Amelia K. Boehme, Francesca Dominici, Carl L. Hart, & Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou



Limited evidence exists on how temperature increases are associated with hospital visits from alcohol- and substance-related disorders, despite plausible behavioral and physiological pathways.



In the present study, we implemented a case-crossover design, which controls for seasonal patterns, long-term trends, and non- or slowly-varying confounders, with distributed lag non-linear temperature terms (0–6 days) to estimate associations between daily ZIP Code-level temperature and alcohol- and substance-related disorder hospital visit rates in New York State during 1995–2014. We also examined four substance-related disorder sub-causes (cannabis, cocaine, opioid, sedatives).


https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-023-00346-1

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