Mortality following inpatient addictions treatment. Role of tobacco use in a community-based cohort
JAMAPublished 10 April 1996
R. Douglas Hurt
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Patients previously treated for alcoholism and/or other nonnicotine drug dependence had an increased cumulative mortality that was due more to tobacco-related than to alcohol-related causes, and nicotine dependence treatment is imperative in such high-risk patients.
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Patients previously treated for alcoholism and/or other nonnicotine drug dependence had an increased cumulative mortality that was due more to tobacco-related than to alcohol-related causes. Nicotine dependence treatment is imperative in such high-risk patients.
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