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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-09-01
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Series: | Injury Epidemiology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40621-019-0213-z |