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Ageing opioid users’ increased risk of methadone-specific death in the UK

BACKGROUND: The first evidence that the hazard ratio (HR) for methadone-specific death rises more steeply with age-group than for all drug-related deaths (DRDs) came from Scotland’s cohort of 33,000 methadone-prescription clients. We aim to examine, for England, whether illicit opioid users’ risk of...

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Autores principales: Pierce, Matthias, Millar, Tim, Robertson, J. Roy, Bird, Sheila M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6004035/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29573622
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.02.005