State marijuana laws and opioid overdose mortality

Abstract Background The opioid epidemic in the United States is a national public health crisis. In recent years, marijuana legalization has been increasingly adopted by state governments as a policy intervention to control the opioid epidemic under the premise that marijuana and opioids are substit...

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Main Authors: Stanford Chihuri, Guohua Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-09-01
Series:Injury Epidemiology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40621-019-0213-z