Circumstances and Witness Characteristics Associated With Overdose Fatality

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 618-624

  Bohnert, Amy S B ^a,b   Tracy, Melissa ^c   Galea, Sandro ^c,d  

^a VA National Serious Mental Illness Treatment Research and Evaluation Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG USE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WITNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERDOSE; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349148930     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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