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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 2.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2015 Mar 15;110(6):996–1005. doi: 10.1111/add.12863
Total Death occurred during time-period when patient was…

In-treatment Out-of-treatment

n % CMR 95% CI n % CMR 95% CI n % CMR 95% CI
Drug-relatedˆ 450 43.6 5.9 5.4 6.4 65 35.5 2.3 1.8 2.9 385 45.4 8.0 7.2 8.8
Hepatitis or HIV-related 57 5.5 0.7 0.6 1.0 10 5.5 0.4 0.2 0.7 47 5.5 1.0 0.7 1.3
 Hepatitis 43 4.2 0.6 0.4 0.8 7 3.8 0.2 0.1 0.5 36 4.2 0.7 0.5 1.0
 HIV-related 14 1.4 0.2 0.1 0.3 3 1.6 0.1 0.0 0.3 11 1.3 0.2 0.1 0.4
Other 524 50.8 6.8 6.3 7.4 108 59.0 3.8 3.1 4.6 416 49.1 8.6 7.9 9.5
 Cardiovascular 147 14.3 1.9 1.6 2.3 38 20.8 1.3 1.0 1.8 109 12.9 2.3 1.9 2.7
 Trauma+ 104 10.1 1.4 1.1 1.6 22 12.0 0.8 0.5 1.2 82 9.7 1.7 1.4 2.1
All other causes# 273 26.5 3.6 3.2 4.0 48 26.2 1.7 1.3 2.2 225 26.5 4.7 4.1 5.3

Total 1,031 -- 13.4 12.7 14.3 183 17.7 6.4 5.5 7.4 848 82.3 17.6 16.5 18.8
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overdose (accidental poisoning by alcohol or other drugs), other drug-related (harmful alcohol or drug use or dependence)

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suicide (intentional self-harm or self-poisoning), homicide, injury (accidental injury, traffic accidents)

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cancer, respiratory disease, liver disease, diabetes, infections/parasites, endometriosis, digestive disease, renal disease, central nervous system, other, and unknown

See Appendix 1 for ICD-10 codes included in each category of mortality