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Deaths among Users of Dangerous Drugs
Author(s) -
Pirrie G. Denis
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
british journal of addiction to alcohol and other drugs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0007-0890
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1977.tb00704.x
Subject(s) - medicine , case fatality rate , demography , drug misuse , narcotic , psychiatry , pediatrics , medical emergency , drug , environmental health , population , sociology
Summary In the four years from January, 1969, to the end of December, 1973, eight young adults who were attending a small drug dependency clinic in the south of England died. Though more than four times as many men as women attended in this period, deaths were equally divided, so that there was a very high fatality rate for women. Six or seven of these deaths were associated with the misuse of barbiturates rather than with the misuse of narcotic drugs. A number of these young people were living away from their home locality.