Suicide: A silent contributor to opioid-overdose deaths

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 378, Issue 17, 2018, Pages 1567-1569

  Oquendo, Maria A ^a   Volkow, Nora D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ADDICTION; CHRONIC PAIN; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG OVERDOSE; FINANCIAL DEFICIT; HUMAN; MOOD DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; MORTALITY; OPIATE ADDICTION; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DRUG OVERDOSE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85046096206     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1801417     Document Type: Review

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