TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Opioid analgesic involvement in drug abuse deaths in American metropolitan areas
JO  - American journal of public health
A1  - Paulozzi, Leonard J.
SP  - 1755
EP  - 1757
VL  - 96
IS  - 10
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0090-0036
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2005.071647
ID  - ref1
ER  -