1. Mitigating the Safety Risks of Drugs With a Focus on Opioids: Are Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies the Answer? 
Marta J. Brooks, PharmD 
Mayo Clinic Proceedings 
Volume 89, Issue 12, Pages (December 2014)
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2. Figure
Overdose deaths involving opioid analgesics, cocaine, and heroin, United States, Not all overdose deaths specify the drug(s) involved, and a death may involve more than one specific substance. The increase in in opioid deaths is related to nonpharmaceutical fentanyl.12 ∗Heroin includes opium.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.13
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