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Monitoring Spatial Patterns of Adverse Drug Events and Morbidity in New York City Using Syndromic Data Streams
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Drug-related deaths have increased over the past decade throughout the United States. In New York City (NYC), every year there are approximately 900 psychoactive drug-related fatalities with the majority involving opioids.… read more… departments each year. Moreover, nonfatal overdose may be common among chronic drug users. Despite the … services ambulance dispatches and emergency department visits can be combined to routinely monitor citywide spatial … drugs “kill hundreds.” Lancet. 2006 Aug 12;368(9535):569-70. Further information: Alejandro Cajigal, …