Letter on Rocket’s et al., manuscript: Fatal self-injury in the United States, 1999-2018: Unmasking a national mental health crisis
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We believe Rockett’s classification of overdose to self-injury reduces the complexity of fatal overdoses while perpetuating a stigmatizing narrative of people who use drugs, an already marginalized population, as careless and intentionally self-harming.Rockett IRH, et al. (2021). Fatal self-injury in the United States, 1999-2018: Unmasking a national mental health crisis. EClinicalMedicine, 8;32:100741. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100741.
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Santaella-Tenorio J, Townsend T, Krawczyk N, Frank D, Friedman SR (2021). Letter on Rocket’s et al., manuscript: Fatal self-injury in the United States, 1999-2018: Unmasking a national mental health crisis
EClinicalMedicine, 34, 100820. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100820. PMCID: PMC8027522.