Nearly 50,000 died of opioid overdose during 2018. What I want is, textbook or research paper that go deeper into these numbers and analyze them. Like, were all deaths attributed to overdose due to addiction or some of them were due to medication error, iatrogenic in other words? Maybe 1000 died due to iatrogenic opioid overdose? So, instead of listing 50,000, I want analysis, deep analysis of this number?
Not sure if this would help-
https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/treatment/intentional-vs-unintentional-overdose-deaths
Thanks Donna, this site you have mentioned gave me the correct terminology for better research but is there any additional website/paper that lists unintentional vs intentional opioid overdose statistics?
Hi Mostafa,
Please take a look at the following link; there are detailed stats regarding drug abuse (section for opioids) over there. On the website's map, you can select either prescribed or non-prescribed opioids, I hope it would be helpful.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. World Drug Report 2017. Available at: https://www.unodc.org/wdr2017/index.html
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