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Page 102
Reprinted by permission. be counted for a nonlethal emergency-room episode;
41 percent of DAWN's ER episodes entail the use of more than one drug. Up to
six drugs can be counted in a fatal overdose; 72 percent of the ME reports
mention ...
Reprinted by permission. be counted for a nonlethal emergency-room episode;
41 percent of DAWN's ER episodes entail the use of more than one drug. Up to
six drugs can be counted in a fatal overdose; 72 percent of the ME reports
mention ...
Page 104
A second problem is that alcohol appears on DAWN's list only if it is used in
combination with another drug, yet most acute alcohol-related medical
complications, both fatal and nonfatal, occur with alcohol alone. Thus we cannot
even remotely ...
A second problem is that alcohol appears on DAWN's list only if it is used in
combination with another drug, yet most acute alcohol-related medical
complications, both fatal and nonfatal, occur with alcohol alone. Thus we cannot
even remotely ...
Page 105
_-4'-f smoker dies of lung cancer, it will not be tabulated by DAWN. Certain drugs
(such as tobacco) manifest their harmful effects almost entirely in the form of
chronic ailments. Thus DAWN's data do not deal with all of the ravages of drug ...
_-4'-f smoker dies of lung cancer, it will not be tabulated by DAWN. Certain drugs
(such as tobacco) manifest their harmful effects almost entirely in the form of
chronic ailments. Thus DAWN's data do not deal with all of the ravages of drug ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Drugs in American society |
| Author | Erich Goode |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Sep 2011 |
| ISBN | 0075540223, 9780075540229 |
| Length | 321 pages |
| Subjects | › Medical / Pharmacology Social Science / General |
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