Poisoning Publications

Journal Articles

Paulozzi LJ, Weisler RH, Patkar AA. A National Epidemic of Unintentional Prescription Opioid Overdose Deaths: How Physicians Can Help Control It. J Clin Psychiatry. 2011; 72(5):589-592.

Paulozzi LJ, Budnitz DS, Xi Y.  Increasing deaths from opioid analgesics in the United States.  Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 2006; 15:618-627.

Paulozzi LJ, Annest J. US data show sharply rising drug-induced death rates. Injury Prevention 2007;13:130-132.

Hall AJ, Logan JE, Toblin RL, Kaplan JA, Kraner JC, Bixler D, Crosby AE, Paulozzi LJ. Patterns of abuse among unintentional pharmaceutical overdose fatalities. JAMA 2008;300:2613-2620.

Paulozzi LJ, Logan JE, Hall AJ, McKinstry E, Kaplan JA. A comparison of drug overdose deaths involving methadone and other opioid analgesics in West Virginia.  Addiction 2009; 104:1541-1548.

MMWR Articles

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Drug Overdose Deaths --- Florida, 2003--2009. MMWR 2011;60(26);869-872.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Unintentional and undetermined poisoning deaths—11 states, 1990-2001. MMWR 2004;53:233-8.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nonfatal, unintentional medication exposures among young children—United States, 2001-2003. MMWR 2006;55:1-5.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Unintentional poisoning deaths—United States, 1999-2004. MMWR 2007;56:93-96.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids among Medicaid enrollees—Washington, 2004-2007. MMWR 2009;58:1171-1175.

Related Publications

Warner M, Chen LH, Makuc DM, Anderson RN, Miniño AM. Drug poisoning deaths in the United States, 1980-2008. NCHS data brief, no. 81. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics, 2011.

Warner M, Chen LH, Makuc DM.  Increase in fatal poisonings involving opioid analgesics in the United States, 1999–2006. NCHS data brief, no. 22. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics, 2009.

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Prescription Drug Overdose: State Health Agencies Respond. 2008.