Quantifying the Epidemic of Prescription Opioid Overdose Deaths

Affiliations

Puja Seth et al. Am J Public Health. 2018 Apr.

. 2018 Apr;108(4):500-502.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.304265.

¹ All of the authors are with the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.

No abstract available

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