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. 2023 May 1;80(5):518-520.
doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.5159.

Twenty-Year Trends in Drug Overdose Fatalities Among Older Adults in the US

Keith Humphreys  1   2 , Chelsea L Shover  3
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Twenty-Year Trends in Drug Overdose Fatalities Among Older Adults in the US

Keith Humphreys et al. JAMA Psychiatry. .
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This study uses data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research database to assess 20-year trends in drug overdose fatalities among older adults in the US.

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Figure.. Characteristics of Fatal Drug Overdose Among Adults 65 Years and Older in the US, 2002-2021a
A, Crude drug overdose mortality rate per 100 000 population by overall population and stratified by race and ethnicity. B, Number of drug overdose deaths per year stratified by manner of death. Dotted lines indicate 95% CIs. aData for 2002 to 2020 are considered final. Provisional data for 2021 were downloaded from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research database on October 12, 2022. Additional deaths may be added to database as the 2021 data set is finalized.
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