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. 2018 Sep/Oct;12(5):418-419.
doi: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000000412.

Measuring the Burden of Opioid-related Mortality in Ontario, Canada

Tara Gomes  1 , Simon Greaves, Mina Tadrous, Muhammad M Mamdani, J Michael Paterson, David N Juurlink
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Measuring the Burden of Opioid-related Mortality in Ontario, Canada

Tara Gomes et al. J Addict Med. 2018 Sep/Oct.
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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of interest: MM has received honoraria from Boehringer Ingelheim, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Bayer. TG, DJ, and MM have received unrestricted grant funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

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FIGURE 1
Proportion of deaths that are opioid-related, by age group (2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015). Figure shows the proportion of deaths in each age group that involved an opioid, calculated using opioid-related death data and all-cause mortality data. In Ontario, Canada, opioid-related death data were abstracted from the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario, and deaths from all causes were identified using the OHIP Registered Persons Database.
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