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Uniform standards and case definitions for classifying opioid-related deaths: recommendations by a SAMHSA consensus panel.

Deaths involving prescription and illicit opioids are on the rise, which is an issue of increasing concern to health care professionals, policymakers, and the public. However, because medical examiners, coroners, and other practitioners do not use uniform standards and case definitions in classifying such drug-related deaths, the incidence and prevalence data are challenging to analyze and difficult to interpret, and thus form a poor basis for crafting effective responses. To address this situation, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration convened a Consensus Panel and charged it with devising uniform standards and case definitions that can assist medical examiners, coroners, public health officials, and others in consistently distinguishing between deaths that were caused by a certain opioids and deaths in which such a drug was detected but was not a major cause of or contributor to the death. The consensus statement presented here incorporates the panel's recommendations in four key areas.

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