title: Fatal uncertainty: death-rate from use of ecstasy or heroin.
abstract: We provide a 25-fold range for the ecstacy-related death rate per 10,000 15-24-year-old users in the UK: from 0.2 to 5.3, compared with the death rate of 1.0 from road traffic accidents in the same age-group. The heroin-related death rate in 15-24-year-old heroin users was much higher, but also imprecisely estimated: from 9.1 to 81.5 deaths per 10,000 15-24-year-old users. Data deficiencies which inhibit the calculation of drug-specific rates in this population should be remedied.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Gore
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000401:mortality*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D006213:Hallucinogens; D003932:Heroin; D006801:Humans; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D018817:N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine; D009294:Narcotics; D012606:Scotland / Q000453:epidemiology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*
chemical_list: D006213:Hallucinogens; D009294:Narcotics; D003932:Heroin; D018817:N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine