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Complications
- high risk of mortality among recently released prisoners[1]
- drugs, cardiovascular disease, homicide, suicide
- opioid overdose was an especially common cause of early mortality[2]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Binswanger IA et al, Release from prison - A high risk of death for former inmates. N Engl J Med 2007, 356:157 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17215533
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Binswanger IA et al. Mortality after prison release: Opioid overdose and other causes of death, risk factors, and time trends from 1999 to 2009. Ann Intern Med 2013 Nov 5; 159:592 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24189594 <Internet> http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1763230