Drug involvement in fatal overdoses

SSM - Population Health

Volumn 3, Issue , 2017, Pages 219-226

  Ruhm, Christopher J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug cocktails; Drug deaths; Drug fatalities; Drug mortality; Drug poisoning deaths; Fatal overdoses; Overdose deaths

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012054701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23528273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.01.009     Document Type: Article

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