The 2025 Drug Overdose Spike That Wasn't: Neither Politics nor Data Errors Explain the Anomaly.
The article examines a spike in drug overdose deaths in January 2025 according to estimates by the U.S. National Center for Statistics System (NVSS), which reversed the national downward trend. It discusses the revision of the NVSS algorithm used to account for incomplete autopsies and national proj...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 116; no. 5; pp. 591 - 594 |
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May2026
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