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Comment
. 2016 Jun;106(6):e10-1.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303104.

Prescription and Illicit Opioid Deaths and the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program in Florida

Chris Delcher  1 , Yanning Wang  1 , Alexander C Wagenaar  1 , Bruce A Goldberger  1 , Robert L Cook  1 , Mildred M Maldonado-Molina  1
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Prescription and Illicit Opioid Deaths and the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program in Florida

Chris Delcher et al. Am J Public Health. 2016 Jun.
No abstract available

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FIGURE 1—
Modeled (Line) and Observed (Dot) Quarterly Counts of Heroin-, Morphine-, Fentanyl- and Oxycodone-Caused Deaths Before and After Implementation of Florida’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Note. The best-fitting Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) parameters (p,d,q) for each drug series are shown and post-PDMP trends are significant (P < .005). Source. Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Medical Examiners Commission.
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  • Kennedy-Hendricks et al. Respond.
    Kennedy-Hendricks A, Richey M, McGinty EE, Stuart EA, Barry CL, Webster DW. Kennedy-Hendricks A, et al. Am J Public Health. 2016 Jun;106(6):e11-2. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303227. Am J Public Health. 2016. PMID: 27153026 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Comment on

  • Opioid Overdose Deaths and Florida's Crackdown on Pill Mills.
    Kennedy-Hendricks A, Richey M, McGinty EE, Stuart EA, Barry CL, Webster DW. Kennedy-Hendricks A, et al. Am J Public Health. 2016 Feb;106(2):291-7. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302953. Epub 2015 Dec 21. Am J Public Health. 2016. PMID: 26691121 Free PMC article.

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