Overdose — a major cause of avoidable death among young people

Lisbon January 2005

Series type: Drugs in focus

Summary

Drug-related death is a complex phenomenon that includes both deaths from overdose and deaths indirectly related to drugs, for example from diseases spread by the sharing of injecting equipment, such as AIDS and hepatitis, and from accidents, violence and suicide under the influence of drugs.

Pub. Author:

EMCDDA

Issue:

13

Pages:

4

Price:

free

ISBN:

1681-5157

Catalog Number:

TDAD04002ENC

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Main subject

Keywords

drug consumption facility

drug-related deaths

health and social responses

health harms of drug use

preventing overdoses

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