Increasing pregnancy-related use of prescribed opioid analgesics
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Increasing deaths from opioid analgesics in the United States.
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Epidemiology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1047-2797
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2013.05.017