Titre : | Fatal uncertainty : death-rate from use of ecstasy or heroin. (1999) |
Auteurs : | S.M. GORE |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Lancet (The) (vol. 354, n° 9186, 1999) |
Pagination : | 1265-1266 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Toxicomanie ; Stupéfiant ; Héroïne ; Mort ; Mortalité ; Toxicomane ; Homme |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST qVo7R0xh. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. We provide a 25-fold range for the ecstacy-related death rate per 10 000 15-24-year-old users in the UK : from 0.2 to 5.3, compared with the death rate of 1.0 from road traffic accidents in the same age-group. The heroin-related death rate in 15-24-year-old heroin users was much higher, but also imprecisely estimated : from 9.1 to 81.5 deaths per 10 000 15-24-year-old users. Data deficiencies which Inhibit the calculation of drug-specific rates in this population should be remedied. |