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

<h4>Background</h4>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 undeterm...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
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
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135296