Variable Classification of Drug-Intoxication Suicides across US States: A Partial Artifact of Forensics?

• Ian R. H. Rockett ,

  * E-mail: irockett@hsc.wvu.edu

  Affiliation Injury Control Research Center and Department of Epidemiology, West Virginia University School of Public Health, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Gerald R. Hobbs,

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Dan Wu,

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Guangdong Medical College, Dongguan, Guandong, China and Department of Social Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

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• Haomiao Jia,

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, and School of Nursing, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Kurt B. Nolte,

  Affiliation Office of the Medical Investigator – Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Gordon S. Smith,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Sandra L. Putnam,

  Affiliation Social Solutions International Inc., Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

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• Eric D. Caine

  Affiliation Injury Control Research Center for Suicide Prevention and Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

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