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. 1995 Jan;85(1):119–120. doi: 10.2105/ajph.85.1.119

Mortality among injection drug users identified as "out of treatment".

J M McAnulty, H Tesselaar, D W Fleming
PMCID: PMC1615264  PMID: 7832249

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