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Place, poverty and prescriptions: a cross-sectional study using Area Deprivation Index to assess opioid use and drug-poisoning mortality in the USA from 2012 to 2017
OBJECTIVE: To identify the relationships between county-level area deprivation and patterns of both opioid prescriptions and drug-poisoning mortality. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: For this retrospective cross-sectional study, we used the IQVIA Xponent data to capture opioid prescriptions and Ce...
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Format: | Online Article Text |
Language: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2020
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7239546/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32423933 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035376 |