Urban-rural differences in drug overdose death rates, by sex, age, and type of drugs involved, 2017 / Holly Hedegarrd, Arialdi M. Miniņo, and Margaret Warner.
Publication Info.
Hyattsville, MD : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, 2019.
Monitoring prescription drug use patterns at the population level can inform research and clinical practice. These patterns may shift over time in response to changing health needs, updated clinical guidelines, policy changes, and other factors. The percentage of the U.S. population that used one or more prescription drugs increased from 1999-2000 through 2007-2008. This report describes prescription drug use by age, sex, and race and Hispanic origin in 2015-2016 and trends over the preceding decade.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF caption (National Center for Health Statistics website, viewed Sept. 4, 2019).