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Drug Overdose

"Drug Overdose" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Accidental or deliberate use of a medication or street drug in excess of normal dosage.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Drug Overdose" by people in this website by year, and whether "Drug Overdose" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 62 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2020
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