Patterns of substance use and mortality risk in a cohort of ‘hard‐to‐reach’ polysubstance users

ConclusionsIn a Norwegian prospective cohort study, ‘hard‐to‐reach’ polysubstance users had a more than 10 times higher mortality risk than the general population. Mortality risk was not a function of any single drug use indicator, but two distinct combinations of substances, frequencies and routes of administration were associated with the mortality risk.

Source: Addiction - November 24, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Linn Gjersing, Anne Line Bretteville ‐Jensen Tags: Research Report Source Type: research