AIMS: To conduct a systematic review of mortality among cohort studies of cocaine users.
METHODS: Three electronic databases were searched (EMBASE, Medline and PsychINFO); …

Aims To estimate pooled all‐cause and cause‐specific mortality risk for people with regular
or problematic cocaine use. Methods Systematic review and meta‐analysis of prospective or …

Background Cocaine-involved overdose mortality has recently risen in the United States
(US), yet it is unclear to what extent patterns in cocaine-involved overdose mortality parallel …

Mortality is a significant outcome among Brazilian crack/cocaine-dependent patients yet not
well understood and is under investigated. This study examined a range of mortality …

Rationale To estimate the risk of experiencing clinical features of cocaine dependence
within 1–2 years of starting cocaine use, and to examine whether crack smoking might …

AIMS: To report the results of a comprehensive literature search of studies of mortality
among people who use amphetamines. DESIGN AND SETTING: Three electronic …

Objective The purpose of this study was to determine the mortality risks, over 20 years of
follow-up in a nationally representative sample, associated with illegal drug use and to …

The toxicities of cocaine are far‐ranging. They include sudden death, acute medical and
psychiatric illness, infectious complications, reproductive disturbances, trauma, criminal …

Background and aims Amphetamines are the second most commonly used class of illicit
drugs. We aimed to produce pooled estimates of mortality risks among people with regular …

In this paper, we present new estimates for the risk of becoming cocaine dependent within
24 months after first use of the drug, and study subgroup variation in this risk. The study …