Drug Overdose Deaths among Adolescents Aged 15-19 in the United States : 1999-2015. NCHS Data Brief. Number 282 / Sally C. Curtin, Betzaida Tejada-Vera and Margaret Warner.

Drug overdose deaths in the United States are a pressing public health challenge. In particular, drug overdoses involving opioids have increased since 1999. This report focuses specifically on drug overdose deaths for older adolescents aged 15-19. In 2015, 772 drug overdose deaths occurred in this a...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Authors:	Curtin, Sally C., Tejada-Vera, Betzaida (Author), Warner, Margaret, 1965- (Author)
Corporate Author:	National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2017.
Subjects:	Drug Abuse. Death. Late Adolescents. Gender Differences. Mortality Rate. Narcotics. Cocaine. Stimulants.