Death from drugs like oxycodone linked to disadvantaged neighborhoods, fragmented families
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 20:30
in Health & Medicine
Death from analgesic overdose, including the painkillers oxycodone and codeine, is more concentrated in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods with a prevalence of high divorce, single-parent homes than deaths from unintentional causes. Yet, compared to heroin overdose deaths, analgesic overdoses were found to occur in higher-income neighborhoods.