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. 2020 Dec;97(6):808-813.
doi: 10.1007/s11524-020-00486-y. Epub 2020 Sep 28.

Opioid Overdose-Related Emergency Department Visits and Accidental Deaths during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Luke N Rodda  1   2 , Kelsa L West  3 , Kathy T LeSaint  4   5
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Opioid Overdose-Related Emergency Department Visits and Accidental Deaths during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Luke N Rodda et al. J Urban Health. 2020 Dec.
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Gender and ages of individuals who presented to the emergency department or accidentally died due to an opioid overdose from January 1 to April 18, 2020
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Emergency department presentations and accidental deaths due to opioid overdose from January 1 to April 18, 2020, following shelter-in-place orders on March 16, 2020
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Deaths per day and total deaths per month due to opioid overdose from January 1 to April 18, 2020. The asterisk indicates that April 2020 contained cases only up until the study period of April 18
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