ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2021
Trends in psychotropic-drug-implicated mortality: Psychotropic drugs as a contributing but non-underlying cause of death.
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- Trends in Psychotropic Drug-Implicated Cardiovascular Mortality: Patterns in U.S. Mortality, 1999-2020.American journal of preventive medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundDrug overdoses have contributed to considerable years of life lost. However, focusing solely on drug overdoses, whereby drug poisoning defines the underlying cause of death, obscures the wider burden of the drug mortality crisis. We aim to describe 21 years of trends in "psychotropic-drug-implicated deaths," those where psychotropic drugs are a contributing (but not the underlying) cause of death.
methodsWe analyze deaths extracted from CDC WONDER from 1999-2019 to generate annual counts and rates for psychotropic-drug-implicated deaths in the United States, including by underlying cause of death and drug implicated.
resultsOver 21 years, 51,446 psychotropic-drug-implicated deaths occurred (33,885 medical; 17,561 external). Both medical and external psychotropic-drug-implicated deaths rose dramatically, increasing 2.5 and 5.0 times, respectively. Diseases of the circulatory system predominated underlying causes of medical deaths (74 %). Non-drug suicide, transport accidents, and drownings constitute 54 % of external underlying causes. Among the various underlying causes of death, psychotropic-drug-implicated deaths represent a considerable proportion, especially among external causes, with the proportion greatly increasing over the observation period. The drug implicated evolves from cocaine to opioids to psychostimulants, with the latter rising considerably.
conclusionsThe drug mortality crisis extends beyond overdose and may temper improvements observed within other causes of mortality, such as cardiovascular disease, transport accidents, and drownings. As with overdoses, psychotropic-drug-implicated deaths have risen dramatically during the 21
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