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. 2025 Aug 20:e252110.
doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.2110. Online ahead of print.

Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders After Nonfatal Firearm Injury

Katherine A Koh  1   2 , Mia Giuriato  3 , Chana A Sacks  4   5   6 , José R Zubizarreta  3   7   8 , Zirui Song  3   4   9
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Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders After Nonfatal Firearm Injury

Katherine A Koh et al. JAMA Psychiatry. .
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This cohort study examines associations between firearm injuries and subsequent psychiatric and substance use disorders.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Sacks reported grants from Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund outside the submitted work. Dr Song reported personal fees from the Research Triangle Institute for work on Medicare and US Department of Health and Human Services risk adjustment, from Google Ventures for academic lectures outside of this work, from JAMA Health Forum for serving as an Associate Editor; and for providing consultation in legal cases. No other disclosures were reported.

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