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I wanted to see what ICD-10 codes they used for "drugs" since I have seen similar claims before that grouped in "drug" over/under-doses in a general sense. Ie,

by nonbel 8y ago

I wanted to see what ICD-10 codes they used for "drugs" since I have seen similar claims before that grouped in "drug" over/under-doses in a general sense. Ie, it included stuff like deaths from blood pressure medications. I was disappointed to find that the "source" was apparently a (no longer found) Washington Post article: > "The United States is facing a new set of epidemics — more than 1 million Americans have died in the past decade from drug overdoses, alcohol and suicides (2006 to 2015).1" 1 Hohmann J. “The Daily 202: Trump over performed the most in counties with the highest drug, alcohol and suicide mortality rates.” Washington Post December 9, 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/12/09/ daily-202-trump-over-performed-the-most- in-counties-with-the-highest-drug-alcohol- and-suicide-mortality-rates/584a2a59e9b- 69b7e58e45f2e/?utm_term=.d3109d2f4877 (accessed September 2017). I have trouble taking this document seriously after that.

mr_luc 8y ago
Per Appendix B, the source of the data is the CDC's Wonder "multiple cause of death" data, which does include the codes you mention: https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10.html https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10.html "... The Multiple Cause of Death database contains mortality and population counts for all U.S. counties. Data are based on death certificates for U.S. residents. Each death certificate contains a single underlying cause of death, up to twenty additional multiple causes, and demographic data. The number of deaths, crude death rates, age-adjusted death rates and 95% confidence intervals for death rates can be obtained by cause of death (4 digit ICD-10 codes, 113 selected causes of death, 130 selected causes of infant death, drug and alcohol related causes of death, injury intent and injury mechanism categories) ..." The fact that a study-cum-policy-paper happens to also cite reporting on the problem is par for the course.

by nonbel 8y ago

mr_luc 8y ago

Per Appendix B, the source of the data is the CDC's Wonder "multiple cause of death" data, which does include the codes you mention: https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10.html https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10.html "... The Multiple Cause of Death database contains mortality and population counts for all U.S. counties. Data are based on death certificates for U.S. residents. Each death certificate contains a single underlying cause of death, up to twenty additional multiple causes, and demographic data. The number of deaths, crude death rates, age-adjusted death rates and 95% confidence intervals for death rates can be obtained by cause of death (4 digit ICD-10 codes, 113 selected causes of death, 130 selected causes of infant death, drug and alcohol related causes of death, injury intent and injury mechanism categories) ..." The fact that a study-cum-policy-paper happens to also cite reporting on the problem is par for the course.