Intertwined Epidemics: National Demographic Trends in Hospitalizations for Heroin- and Opioid-Related Overdoses, 1993–2009

George Jay Unick; Daniel Rosenblum; Sarah Mars; Daniel Ciccarone

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0054496

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Intertwined Epidemics: National Demographic Trends in Hospitalizations for Heroin- and Opioid-Related Overdoses, 1993–2009

George Jay Unick ,

* E-mail: junick@ssw.umaryland.edu

Affiliation School of Social Work, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Daniel Rosenblum,

Affiliation Department of Economics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Sarah Mars,

Affiliation Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Daniel Ciccarone

Affiliation Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Intertwined Epidemics: National Demographic Trends in Hospitalizations for Heroin- and Opioid-Related Overdoses, 1993–2009

George Jay Unick,
Daniel Rosenblum,
Sarah Mars,
Daniel Ciccarone

Published: February 6, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054496

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