Prescription opioid deaths: we need to treat sick populations, not just sick individuals

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 3rd Floor Burnet Building, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Vic., 3004, Australia. Angela.Rintoul@monash.edu.

Angela C Rintoul et al. Addiction. 2014 Feb.

. 2014 Feb;109(2):185-6.

doi: 10.1111/add.12343.

¹ School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, 3rd Floor Burnet Building, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Vic., 3004, Australia. Angela.Rintoul@monash.edu.

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