Growing Internet use may help explain the rise in prescription drug abuse in the United States.

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Health Affairs

• Publication date

  2011-05-12

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics

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  DOI 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0155PMID 21565838PMCID PMC3884823
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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