Mortality amongst illicit drug users : epidemiology, causes, and intervention / Shane Darke, Louisa Degenhardt & Richard Mattick.
The rate of illicit drug use worldwide has risen dramatically, and with it the number of deaths reported among drug-using populations. In this book, Shane Darke and his team provide the first full, synthetic review of the epidemiology, causes, prevalence, interventions, demography, and associated ri...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
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©2007.
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Series: | International research monographs in the addictions.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of tables; 1 Why illicit drug-related deaths matter; 2 The global epidemiology of illicit drug use; 3 Mortality amongst illicit drug users; 4 Mortality and drug overdose; 5 Illicit drug use and disease; 6 Mortality and suicide; 7 Mortality and trauma; 8 Reducing drug-related mortality; 9 Summary and conclusions; References; Index.