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Pain Medicine

The evolution of opioid-related mortality and potential years of life lost in Spain from 2008 to 2017: differences between Spain and the United States

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Pages 285-291 | Received 17 Jun 2019, Accepted 21 Oct 2019, Published online: 06 Nov 2019

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