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Drug Addiction Mortality Among Young Muscovites: Official Rates and Actual Scale

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Narcotics and drug addiction mortality are a global challenge: according to the latest World Drug Report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), about 35 million people worldwide suffer from substance use disorders and need treatment.

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    The factographic information and reference system (FAISS-Potential) is a system of mortality analysis indicators in Russia and the subjects of the Russian Federation, calculated on the basis of the Rosstat official data on mortality.

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    “Death registration in the Moscow Unified Medical Information and Analytical System” (RFU-EMIAS) database contains data on death events registered by medical organizations of the Moscow Healthcare Department.

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    https://gateway.euro.who.int/ru/datasets/european-mortality-database/

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Semyonova Victoria, G. et al. (2022). Drug Addiction Mortality Among Young Muscovites: Official Rates and Actual Scale. In: Skiadas, C.H., Skiadas, C. (eds) Quantitative Methods in Demography. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, vol 52. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93005-9_19

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