Continued Increases in Overdose Deaths Related to Synthetic Opioids
Open Access
- 11 February 2021
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 325 (12), 1151-1152
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2021.1169
Abstract
This Viewpoint summarizes a 2021 MMWR report documenting a concerning rise in illicit and synthetic opioid overdose deaths in the US between 2013 and 2019 and pThis publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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