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The Prescription Opioid and Heroin Crisis: A Public Health Approach to an Epidemic of Addiction

Overview of attention for article published in Annual Review of Public Health, January 2015
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#2 of 943)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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Article details
Title
The Prescription Opioid and Heroin Crisis: A Public Health Approach to an Epidemic of Addiction
Published in
Annual Review of Public Health, January 2015
DOI 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031914-122957
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 6 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 1512 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 246 16%
Student > Master 226 15%
Researcher 161 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 156 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 126 8%
Other 248 16%
Unknown 356 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 288 19%
Social Sciences 195 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 142 9%
Psychology 85 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 64 4%
Other 314 21%
Unknown 431 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1389. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 January 2026.
All research outputs
#10,789
of 33,184,990 outputs
Outputs from Annual Review of Public Health
#2
of 943 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#67
of 400,740 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Annual Review of Public Health
#1
of 22 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,184,990 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 943 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 48.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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