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Prescription drug overdoses: a review.
PROBLEM Overdoses involving prescription drugs in the United States have reached epidemic proportions over the past 20 years. METHODS This review categorizes and summarizes literature on the topic dating from the first published reports through 2011 using a traditional epidemiologic model of host, agent, and environment. RESULTS Host factors include male sex, middle age, non-Hispanic white ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 1973
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.63.3.215