Citation

Shai D. Int. J. Addict. 1994; 29(14): 1801-1811.

Affiliation

Department of Sociology, Villanova University, Pennsylvania 19085.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Marcel Dekker)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7890443

Abstract

The accuracy of statistics on drug-related deaths depends on numerous processes at work from the investigation of the death-scene to the categorization of the case in official statistics. This article discusses problems in lack of information, pressures on medical examiners, definition, nomenclature, and conventions of coding. The implications for comparisons of rates of drug-related deaths across ethnic groups and geographic areas are discussed.

Language: en