Suicide: A Silent Contributor to Opioid-Overdose Deaths

N Engl J Med. 2018 Apr 26;378(17):1567-1569. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1801417.

Authors

Maria A Oquendo¹, Nora D Volkow¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (M.A.O.); and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD (N.D.V.).

PMID: 29694805
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1801417

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Cause of Death
Drug Overdose / mortality
Drug Overdose / prevention & control
Drug Overdose / psychology*
Forensic Medicine
Humans
Opioid-Related Disorders / mortality*
Suicide / statistics & numerical data*
United States / epidemiology