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. 2019 Mar;45(1):7-40.
doi: 10.1111/padr.12228. Epub 2019 Feb 20.

The Contemporary American Drug Overdose Epidemic in International Perspective

Jessica Y Ho  1
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The Contemporary American Drug Overdose Epidemic in International Perspective

Jessica Y Ho. Popul Dev Rev. 2019 Mar.
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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Age-standardized drug overdose death rates (p.100,000), men (a) and women (b), 18 high-income countries, 1994–2015 NOTES: The 10 countries with the highest drug overdose death rates in 2013 are highlighted. The remaining 8 countries (Austria, Italy, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland) are in Gray.
FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Age-standardized drug overdose death rates (p.100,000), men (a) and women (b), 18 high-income countries, 1994–2015 NOTES: The 10 countries with the highest drug overdose death rates in 2013 are highlighted. The remaining 8 countries (Austria, Italy, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland) are in Gray.
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Age-standardized drug overdose death rates (p. 100,000) by country groupings, men (a) and women (b), 18 high-income countries, 2013
FIGURE 3
FIGURE 3
Years of life lost from drug overdose by country groupings, men (a) and women (b), 18 high-income countries, 2003 and 2013
FIGURE 4
FIGURE 4
Percent of the US life expectancy gap due to drug overdose, men (a) and women (b), 17 high-income countries and average, 2013
FIGURE 5
FIGURE 5
Age-specific drug overdose death rates (p. 100,000), United States (a), Anglophone (b), and Nordic (c) countries, men
FIGURE 6
FIGURE 6
Age-specific drug overdose death rates (p. 100,000), United States (a), Anglophone (b), and Nordic (c) countries, women
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