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- Title
Opioid Analgesic Involvement in Drug Abuse Deaths in American Metropolitan Areas.
- Authors
Paulozzi, Leonard J.
- Abstract
I measured the role of opioid analgesics in drug abuse-related deaths in a consistent panel of 28 metropolitan areas from the Drug Abuse Warning Network. The number of reports of opioid analgesics increased 96.6% from 1997 to 2002; methadone, oxycodone, and unspecified opioid analgesics accounted for 74.3% of the increase. Oxycodone reports increased 727.8% (from 72 to 596 reports). By 2002, opioid analgesics were noted more frequently than were heroin or cocaine. Dramatic increases in the availability of such opioids have made their abuse a major, growing problem. (Am J Public Health. 2006;96:1755-1757, doi:10.2105/AJPH.2005.071647)
- Subjects
OPIOID abuse; PSYCHIATRIC drugs; ANALGESICS; DRUG abuse; DRUG abusers; OXYCODONE abuse; METHADONE abuse; DRUGS of abuse; METROPOLITAN areas; METHADONE treatment programs
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2006, Vol 96, Issue 10, p1755
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2005.071647