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Kalesan B, Zhao S, Poulson M, Neufeld M, Dechert T, Siracuse JJ, Zuo Y**, Li F. Intersections of Firearm Suicide, Drug-Related Mortality, and Economic Dependency in Rural America. The Journal of surgical research. 2020 Dec;256(256). 96-102.
Abstract
Rural counties in the United States have higher firearm suicide rates and opioid overdoses than urban counties. We sought to determine whether rural counties can be grouped based on these "diseases of despair."