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Patterns of Abuse Among Unintentional Pharmaceutical Overdose Fatalities

Author(s) -

Aron J. Hall

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

jama

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688

H-Index - 680

eISSN - 1538-3598

pISSN - 0098-7484

DOI - 10.1001/jama.2008.802

Subject(s) - medicine , medical prescription , drug overdose , medical examiner , substance abuse , population , poison control , heroin , prescription drug , controlled substance , injury prevention , mortality rate , emergency medicine , demography , environmental health , psychiatry , drug , surgery , pharmacology , sociology

Use and abuse of prescription narcotic analgesics have increased dramatically in the United States since 1990. The effect of this pharmacoepidemic has been most pronounced in rural states, including West Virginia, which experienced the nation's largest increase in drug overdose mortality rates during 1999-2004.

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