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. 2022 May 13;71(19):664-666.
doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7119a3.

Notes from the Field: Trends in Gabapentin Detection and Involvement in Drug Overdose Deaths - 23 States and the District of Columbia, 2019-2020

Christine L Mattson, Farnaz Chowdhury, Thomas P Gilson

Notes from the Field: Trends in Gabapentin Detection and Involvement in Drug Overdose Deaths - 23 States and the District of Columbia, 2019-2020

Christine L Mattson et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. .
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Quarterly trends in gabapentin detection and involvement of gabapentin and other substances in drug overdose deaths among decedents in whom gabapentin was detected, by substance involvement — 23 states and the District of Columbia, 2019–2020 Abbreviation: Q = quarter. * Substances determined to have caused death. When nonspecific terminology was used in an overdose cause of death statement (e.g., multidrug overdose), all drugs detected in postmortem toxicology were included as involved in the death. For example, if the cause of death was “multidrug overdose,” and toxicology results were positive for five drugs, all five were classified as involved. † Twenty-three states (Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia) and the District of Columbia.
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