Timely Overdose Death Reporting Is Challenging but We Must Do Better

Affiliations

¹ Michael Dolan Fliss is with the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center, Chapel Hill, and the North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services, Division of Public Health, Injury & Violence Prevention Branch. Mary E. Cox is with the North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services, Division of Public Health, Injury & Violence Prevention Branch. Samantha W. Dorris and Anna E. Austin are with the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center.

Editorial

Michael Dolan Fliss et al. Am J Public Health. 2021 Jul.

. 2021 Jul;111(7):1194-1196.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306332.

¹ Michael Dolan Fliss is with the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center, Chapel Hill, and the North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services, Division of Public Health, Injury & Violence Prevention Branch. Mary E. Cox is with the North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services, Division of Public Health, Injury & Violence Prevention Branch. Samantha W. Dorris and Anna E. Austin are with the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center.

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COVID-19 and the Drug Overdose Crisis: Uncovering the Deadliest Months in the United States, January‒July 2020.
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