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. 2007 Oct;13(5):293-4.
doi: 10.1136/ip.2007.016113.

Overdoses are injuries too

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Overdoses are injuries too

Leonard J Paulozzi. Inj Prev. 2007 Oct.

Abstract

Drug overdose should be treated as an injury to which prevention strategies should be applied

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