Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Early Release / Vol. 61, July 3, 2012

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• Alternative Title:
  Vital Signs: Risk for Overdose from Methadone Used for Pain Relief - United States, 1999-2010
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Vital statistics data suggest that the opioid pain reliever (OPR) methadone is involved in one third of OPR-related overdose deaths, but it accounts for only a few percent of OPR prescriptions. CDC analyzed rates of fatal methadone overdoses and sales nationally during 1999-2010 and rates of overdose death for methadone compared with rates for other major opioids in 13 states for 2009.
  
  Methadone overdose deaths and sales rates in the United States peaked in 2007. In 2010, methadone accounted for between 4.5% and 18.5% of the opioids distributed by state. Methadone was involved in 31.4% of OPR deaths in the 13 states. It accounted for 39.8% of single-drug OPR deaths. The overdose death rate for methadone was significantly greater than that for other OPR for multidrug and single-drug deaths.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Analgesics, Opioid / Poisoning Drug Overdose / Mortality Guideline Adherence Humans Methadone / Poisoning Pain / Drug Therapy Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Statistics & Numerical Data Risk
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), 2012; v. 61, MMWR: Early Release
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Subseries:
  MMWR: Early Release
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Issue
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  5 pdf pages
• Volume:
  61
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
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