Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2013–2017
The 63,632 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2016 represented a 21.4% increase from 2015; two thirds of these deaths involved an opioid (1). From 2015 to 2016, drug o...
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3 shownTrends and Geographic Patterns in Drug and Synthetic Opioid Overdose Deaths — United States, 2013–2019
Deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone (synthetic opioids), which largely consist of illicitly manufactured fentanyl; psychostimulants with abuse potential (e.g...
Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2017–2018
Of the 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2017, approximately two thirds (47,600) involved an opioid (1). In recent years, increases in opioid-involved overdose...
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Researcher Info
- h-index
- 3
- Publications
- 3
- Citations
- 3,850
- Institution
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
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- ORCID
- 0000-0001-7751-9749
Impact Metrics
h-index
3
h-index: Number of publications with at least h citations each.