Paulozzi Leonard J
Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga 30341, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2006 Oct;96(10):1755-7. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.071647.
I measured the role of opioid analgesics in drug abuse-related deaths in a consistent panel of 28 metropolitan areas from the Drug Abuse Warning Network. The number of reports of opioid analgesics increased 96.6% from 1997 to 2002; methadone, oxycodone, and unspecified opioid analgesics accounted for 74.3% of the increase. Oxycodone reports increased 727.8% (from 72 to 596 reports). By 2002, opioid analgesics were noted more frequently than were heroin or cocaine. Dramatic increases in the availability of such opioids have made their abuse a major, growing problem.
我在药物滥用预警网络中选取了28个大都市地区组成的固定样本,测定了阿片类镇痛药在与药物滥用相关死亡事件中的作用。从1997年到2002年,阿片类镇痛药的报告数量增加了96.6%;美沙酮、羟考酮和未明确的阿片类镇痛药占了这一增长的74.3%。羟考酮的报告数量增加了727.8%(从72份增至596份)。到2002年,阿片类镇痛药比海洛因或可卡因更频繁地被提及。此类阿片类药物可获得性的急剧增加使其滥用成为一个日益严重的主要问题。