Rising role of prescription drugs as a portal to injection drug use and associated mortality in Baltimore, Maryland.
<h4>Introduction</h4>Prescription drug abuse is a major public health problem in rural and suburban areas of the United States, however its emergence in large urban settings with endemic injection drug use remains understudied. We examined temporal trends in injection drug use initiation...
Main Authors: | Javier A Cepeda, Jacquie Astemborski, Gregory D Kirk, David D Celentano, David L Thomas, Shruti H Mehta |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213357 |
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