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Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999-2015

Holly Hedegaard, Margaret Warner, Arialdi M Minino

    NCHS Data Brief
    |March 4, 2017
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    Keywords:
    poisoning • opioids • heroin • National Vital Statistics System Mortality File In 2015 the age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths in the United States was more than 2.5 times the rate in 1999.

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