Correction: Variable Classification of Drug-Intoxication Suicides across US States: A Partial Artifact of Forensics?

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Table 1

Annualized rates for selected cause-specific manners of death and specific drug citation by state/death investigation system type: United States, 2008–2010

State/Death Investigation System Type	Nonhomicide Drug-intoxication Death Rates by Manner (per 100,000) a				Drug-intoxication Deaths with 1+ Specific Drugs Cited on the Death Certificate (%) b
	Suicide	Undetermined	Accident	Total
All States	1.7	1.0	9.5	12.2	75.1%
Centralized medical examiner
Alaska	1.9	1.7	12.7	16.3	95.5
Connecticut	1.2	0.5	8.9	10.7	76.8
Delaware	2.1	1.3	1.8	15.1	79.3
Maine	2.1	0.3	9.3	11.8	89.7
Maryland	1.0	9.9	1.2	12.1	98.6
Massachusetts	1.3	0.6	10.1	12.0	97.0
New Hampshire	2.1	0.9	8.5	11.5	99.1
New Mexico	3.7	1.2	18.5	23.4	68.7
North Carolina	1.9	0.5	9.8	12.3	92.9
Oklahoma	1.8	1.1	15.3	18.3	97.2
Oregon	2.4	1.4	9.0	12.7	91.2
Rhode Island	2.3	0.3	13.6	16.2	97.3
Utah	2.5	6.6	7.8	16.9	94.2
Vermont	2.3	0.9	6.9	10.1	98.9
Virginia	1.6	0.3	6.3	8.2	92.7
West Virginia	1.3	1.9	18.4	21.5	99.4
Decentralized county coroner
Arkansas	1.9	2.9	7.4	12.2	76.7
Colorado	2.7	1.3	10.5	14.6	70.4
Idaho	2.3	1.7	6.6	10.6	59.6
Indiana	1.7	2.2	9.7	13.7	45.8
Kansas	1.5	0.9	6.9	9.3	58.8
Louisiana	0.8	1.6	11.1	13.5	34.8
Nebraska	0.9	0.6	4.3	5.8	69.4
Nevada	3.3	0.6	16.6	20.4	97.7
South Carolina	1.7	0.2	11.6	13.5	59.8
South Dakota	1.7	1.2	3.1	6.1	88.8
Wyoming	1.8	0.8	10.8	13.4	64.8
Decentralized medical examiner (DME) or combined county coroner/medical examiner
Alabama	1.1	1.0	10.4	12.5	45.0
Arizona (DME)	2.5	1.2	11.7	15.4	80.2
California	1.8	0.4	8.5	10.8	73.1
Florida (DME)	2.5	0.5	13.3	16.3	68.8
Georgia	1.2	0.4	8.7	10.4	71.4
Hawaii	1.3	2.0	6.9	10.1	83.1
Illinois	1.3	0.4	8.7	10.4	86.5
Iowa (DME)	1.8	0.7	4.8	7.4	96.1
Kentucky	1.4	1.7	16.6	19.6	64.8
Michigan (DME)	1.9	2.2	9.5	13.6	65.8
Minnesota	1.5	0.9	5.1	7.6	82.4
Mississippi	1.1	1.1	8.6	10.8	43.4
Missouri	1.8	0.8	12.0	14.6	79.3
Montana	3.0	1.8	8.5	13.4	69.9
New Jersey (DME)	0.8	0.2	5.9	7.0	59.3
New York	1.2	0.7	6.5	8.4	94.0
North Dakota	0.6	0.2	4.0	4.8	87.9
Ohio	1.5	0.6	11.8	13.9	71.4
Pennsylvania	1.7	0.7	12.4	14.9	45.0
Tennessee (DME)	1.8	1.2	12.8	15.7	77.8
Texas	1.2	0.3	7.7	9.2	74.7
Washington	2.2	0.9	11.5	14.6	92.6
Wisconsin	2.1	0.8	8.1	11.0	85.9

a Spearman’s rank-order correlation coefficient (Rho) for drug-intoxication suicide rates and combined accident and undetermined intent drug-intoxication death rates = 0.38 (p<0.01).

b Includes drug-intoxication homicides. Source: Warner M, Paulozzi LJ, Nolte KB, Davis GG, Nelson LS. State variation in certifying manner of death and drugs involved in drug-intoxication deaths. Acad Forensic Pathol. 2013; 3(2): 231–237.