Open AccessDying for heroin: the increasing opioid-related mortality in the Republic of Ireland, 1980–1999
Author(s) -
Michael Kelleher,
Patrick J. Keown,
Colin O’Gara,
Francis Keaney,
Michael Farrell,
John Strang
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
european journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1464-360X
pISSN - 1101-1262
DOI - 10.1093/eurpub/cki048
Subject(s) - heroin , opioid , heroin dependence , medicine , demography , psychiatry , sociology , drug , receptor
Over the past 20 years there has been a steady rise in mortality associated with opioid misuse in several Western countries. We aimed to examine trends in opioid-related mortality over a 20-year period in the Republic of Ireland.
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