Variable Classification of Drug-Intoxication Suicides across US States: A Partial Artifact of Forensics?

Variable Classification of Drug-Intoxication Suicides across US States: A Partial Artifact of Forensics?

The 21st-century epidemic of pharmaceutical and other drug-intoxication deaths in the United States (US) has likely precipitated an increase in misclassified, undercounted suicides. Drug-intoxication suicides are highly prone to be misclassified as accident or undetermined. Misclassification adverse...

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Main Authors: Ian R H Rockett, Gerald R Hobbs, Dan Wu, Haomiao Jia, Kurt B Nolte, Gordon S Smith, Sandra L Putnam, Eric D Caine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4546666?pdf=render

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