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than female adolescents and young people. Although limited by death records potentially undercounting overdoses and a cross-sectional design insensitive to temporal relations be-tween risk factors and deaths, our findings represent… Click to show full abstract
than female adolescents and young people. Although limited by death records potentially undercounting overdoses and a cross-sectional design insensitive to temporal relations be-tween risk factors and deaths, our findings represent an un-acceptable preventable mortality burden for adolescents and youngpeopleintheUS.Priorresearchhasidentifiedpolysub-stance use, psychiatric comorbidity, and unstable housing as relevantriskfactorsforunintentionaldrugoverdoseinthisage cohort. 6 Ourfindingssuggestthatfurtherresourcesareneeded tomitigatethesefactors.Thepresentstudyshouldinformfu-ture mortality reviews among adolescents and young people, aswellasecologicinterventionsinvolvingfamily,school,and community, in unintentional drug overdose prevention and substance use treatment.
Journal Title: JAMA pediatrics
Year Published: 2022
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