Background Although mortality is a known complication of illicit drug use, robust
epidemiological studies on drug-related mortality in Finland are scarce. We examined all …

Premature death is a serious public health concern. The primary objective of this study was
to examine premature deaths in terms of potential years of life lost (PYLL) in a cohort of 4817 …

Abstract Introduction and Aims. To examine the overall mortality and causes of deaths of a
large cohort of users of illicit drugs in Stockholm over 37 years. Design and Methods. People …

Injecting drug users have a mortality risk between 10 and 20 times higher than the general
population, and the persistent high mortality rate in most Western countries, and especially …

Aim: To study long-term mortality and causes of death in a cohort of drug users in relation to
main type of drug use and HIV-status. Methods: A total of 1640 hospitalized drug users in …

Background: This article presents a 30-year follow-up study of a cohort of 1163 substance
misusers who were in inpatient treatment in the early 1980s. Data was originally collected in …

A number of unique challenges are faced when attempting to estimate mortality attributable
to illicit drugs. The hidden nature of illicit drug use creates difficulties in quantifying the …

In this study we assessed, in a three-year follow-up, Drug-Related Deaths (DRDs) in
Slovenia and compared mortality and causes of death in deceased subjects who had been …

The epidemiological part of the Huume tietokanta (HUUTI) consortium research project is
the first large-scale longitudinal study of treatment-seeking illicit drug abusers in Finland …

AIMS: To evaluate premature mortality and causes of death from young adulthood to middle
age in a cohort of drug users followed during almost four decades DESIGN: Follow-up study …