Prognosis of Drug abuse
Deaths and Mortality Rates
Deaths from Drug abuse: 19,102 persons died of drug-induced causes in 1999 USA (NVSR Sep 2001)
Estimated mortality rate for Drug abuse from prevalence and deaths statistics:
- Deaths: 19,102 (USA annual deaths calculated from this data:
19,102 persons died of drug-induced causes in 1999 USA (NVSR Sep 2001))
- Incidence: 4,000,000 (USA prevalence calculated from this data:
more than 4 million women need treatment for drug abuse (NWHIC)
- 0.48% (ratio of deaths to prevalence).
- See also Deaths and Drug abuse and Overview of Drug abuse.
Complications:
Complications of Drug abuse may include:
See also complications of Drug abuse.
Drug abuse: Research More
About prognosis:
The 'prognosis' of Drug abuse usually refers to the likely outcome
of Drug abuse.
The prognosis of Drug abuse
may include the duration of Drug abuse, chances of complications of Drug abuse,
probable outcomes,
prospects for recovery, recovery period for Drug abuse, survival rates,
death rates,
and other outcome possibilities in the overall prognosis of Drug abuse.
Naturally, such forecast issues are by their nature unpredictable.
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