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Variable Classification of Drug-Intoxication Suicides across US States: A Partial Artifact of Forens...

Variable Classification of Drug-Intoxication Suicides across US States: A Partial Artifact of Forens...

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Variable Classification of Drug-Intoxication Suicides across US States: A Partial Artifact of Forensics?

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Variable Classification of Drug-Intoxication Suicides across US States: A Partial Artifact of Forensics?

Publisher

United States: Public Library of Science

Journal title

PloS one, 2015-08, Vol.10 (8), p.e0135296

Language

English

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United States: Public Library of Science

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Contents

The 21st-century epidemic of pharmaceutical and other drug-intoxication deaths in the United States (US) has likely precipitated an increase in misclassified, undercounted suicides. Drug-intoxication suicides are highly prone to be misclassified as accident or undetermined. Misclassification adversely impacts suicide and other injury mortality surv...

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Variable Classification of Drug-Intoxication Suicides across US States: A Partial Artifact of Forensics?

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TN_cdi_plos_journals_1708567873

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_1708567873

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ISSN

1932-6203

E-ISSN

1932-6203

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0135296

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