Breaking the news or fueling the epidemic? Temporal association between news media report volume and opioid-related mortality

Background Historical studies of news media have suggested an association between reporting and increased drug abuse. Period effects for substance use have been documented for different classes of legal and illicit substances, with the suspicion that media publicity may have played major roles in...

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Main Authors: Dasgupta, Nabarun, Mandl, Kenneth D., Brownstein, John S.
Other Authors: Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60362