Prescription drugs: impacts of misuse and accidental overdose in Mississippi
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Issue brief (Center for Mississippi Health Policy)
- Contributor(s):
- Center for Mississippi Health Policy, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Jackson, Mississippi, : Center for Mississippi Health Policy, September 2013
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Drug Overdose -- epidemiology Drug Overdose -- prevention & control Prescription Drug Misuse -- mortality Prescription Drug Misuse -- prevention & control Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs -- legislation & jurisprudence Drug and Narcotic Control Prescription Drug Misuse -- economics Prescription Drugs -- poisoning Humans Mississippi United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Nonmedical use of prescription drugs has been identified as a growing public health problem and increasingly common cause of accidental death. Drug overdose now kills more people than motor vehicle crashes in the United States. This brief highlights the impact of misuse and accidental overdose of prescription drugs in the state and outlines policy options to address the issue.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (8 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101722706 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101722706