Ambient temperature and risk of death from accidental drug overdose in New York City, 1990-2006

Addiction

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1049-1054

  Bohnert, Amy S B ^a,b   Prescott, Marta R ^c,d   Vlahov, David ^e   Tardiff, Kenneth J ^f   Galea, Sandro ^c,d,g  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

^d Department of Medicine   (United States)

^e NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Cocaine; Generalized additive models; Heat; Mortality; Overdose

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DRUG EFFECT; HEAT; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MORTALITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

BODY TEMPERATURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; NEW YORK CITY; OVERDOSE; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77951996803     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009.02887.x     Document Type: Article

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