@article{ref1,
title="Opioid analgesic involvement in drug abuse deaths in American metropolitan areas",
journal="American journal of public health",
year="2006",
author="Paulozzi, Leonard J.",
volume="96",
number="10",
pages="1755-1757",
abstract="I measured the role of opioid analgesics in drug abuse-related deaths in a consistent panel of 28 metropolitan areas from the Drug Abuse Warning Network. The number of reports of opioid analgesics increased 96.6% from 1997 to 2002; methadone, oxycodone, and unspecified opioid analgesics accounted for 74.3% of the increase. Oxycodone reports increased 727.8% (from 72 to 596 reports). By 2002, opioid analgesics were noted more frequently than were heroin or cocaine. Dramatic increases in the availability of such opioids have made their abuse a major, growing problem.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0090-0036",
doi="10.2105/AJPH.2005.071647",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2005.071647"
}