作者: Silvia S. Martins , Laura Sampson , Magdalena Cerdá , Sandro Galea
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摘要: Background. Drug overdose is an important, yet inadequately understood, public health problem. Global attention to unintentional drug has been limited by comparison with the scope of There a substantial increase in incidence and prevalence several countries worldwide over past decade, contributing both increased costs mortality.Objectives. The aim this study was systematically synthesize peer-reviewed literature document global epidemiological profile overdoses prevalence, time trends, mortality rates, correlates overdoses. We searched different combinations Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms PubMed for articles published from 1980 until July 2013, we organized these results tabular spreadsheets compared them. restricted search English-language that deal overdose, focusing on 1 or more following key constructs: prevalence,...