Brief Report: Opioid-Involved Overdose Mortality in United States Veterans.

Talya PeltzmanChandru RavindranPatrick M SchoenSybil W MorleyKaren DrexlerIra R KatzJohn F McCarthy

Published in: The American journal on addictions (2020)

This report provides the first-ever description of trends and characteristics of overdose mortality and opioid-involved deaths among US Veterans of military service for the period 2010 to 2016. With the exception of female Veterans and Veterans in Western States, it has been found that trends in Veteran overdose mortality paralleled rising rates of drug overdose observed in the United States more broadly. Published 2020. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA. (Am J Addict 2020;00:00-00).

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