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29.08.2019 | Concise Research Reports
Increases in Online Posts About Synthetic Opioids Preceding Increases in Synthetic Opioid Death Rates: a Retrospective Observational Study
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Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 12/2019
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Excerpt
Opioid overdose deaths have increased more than fivefold from 1999 to 2016, accounting for 42,249 deaths in 2016.
1 One particularly challenging aspect of the opioid epidemic is that it has been marked by a rapid transition from prescription opioids to heroin to synthetic opioids. This third wave involving synthetic opioids has largely been driven by illicitly manufactured fentanyl and its analogs.
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