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Vital Signs : Trends in Emergency Department Visits for Suspected Opioid Overdoses — United States, July 2016–September 2017

  • Vivolo-Kantor A
  • Seth P
  • Gladden R
  • et al.
MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (2018) 67(9) 279-285
DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6709e1
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Introduction: From 2015 to 2016, opioid overdose deaths increased 27.7%, indicating a worsening of the opioid overdose epidemic and highlighting the importance of rapid data collection, analysis, and dissemination.

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Vivolo-Kantor, A. M., Seth, P., Gladden, R. M., Mattson, C. L., Baldwin, G. T., Kite-Powell, A., & Coletta, M. A. (2018). Vital Signs : Trends in Emergency Department Visits for Suspected Opioid Overdoses — United States, July 2016–September 2017. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 67(9), 279–285. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6709e1

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