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The Contemporary American Drug Overdose Epidemic in International Perspective

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  • Jessica Y. Ho, 2019. "The Contemporary American Drug Overdose Epidemic in International Perspective," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 45(1), pages 7-40, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:popdev:v:45:y:2019:i:1:p:7-40
    DOI: 10.1111/padr.12228
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    2. Janet Currie & Hannes Schwandt, 2020. "The Opioid Epidemic Was Not Primarily Caused by Economic Distress But by Other Factors that Can be More Readily Addressed," Working Papers 2020-25, Princeton University. Economics Department..
    3. Gutin, Iliya & Copeland, William & Godwin, Jennifer & Mullan Harris, Kathleen & Shanahan, Lilly & Gaydosh, Lauren, 2023. "Defining despair: Assessing the multidimensionality of despair and its association with suicidality and substance use in early to middle adulthood," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 320(C).
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    5. Jessica Y. Ho, 2020. "Cycles of Gender Convergence and Divergence in Drug Overdose Mortality," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 46(3), pages 443-470, September.
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    7. Samuel H. Preston & Yana C. Vierboom, 2021. "The Changing Age Distribution of the United States," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 47(2), pages 527-539, June.
    8. Peter Congdon, 2019. "Geographical Patterns in Drug-Related Mortality and Suicide: Investigating Commonalities in English Small Areas," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(10), pages 1-17, May.

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