Rising role of prescription drugs as a portal to injection drug use and associated mortality in Baltimore, Maryland

• Javier A. Cepeda ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jacepeda@ucsd.edu

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0304-3172

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• Jacquie Astemborski,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Gregory D. Kirk,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7829-1405

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• David D. Celentano,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• David L. Thomas,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Shruti H. Mehta

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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