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Characteristics And Patterns Of Opioid-Related Overdoses Among Veterans, Sara Catherine Warfield
Characteristics And Patterns Of Opioid-Related Overdoses Among Veterans, Sara Catherine Warfield
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The United States is in the midst of an opioid overdose crisis and is now considered a public health emergency. Given the alarming rise in opioid overdose deaths, there is an urgent need to understand the characteristics and risks associated with opioid overdoses. The objectives of this study were 1) to compare factors associated with different type of opioid overdose, 2) to determine the conditional probability of repeat overdose among veterans with a prior overdose event and corresponding probability of mortality for each overdose event and, 3) to identify cause-specific mortality rate of those who experienced a …