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Ex-cons face steep risk of death
By Karen AugeDenver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 01/10/2007 05:51:54 PM MST
If there is anything more risky than going to prison, it may be getting out of prison, a new study shows. In the first two weeks after release, former inmates die at a rate 13 times that of the general population, a University of Colorado researcher has found. The leading cause of death among former inmates is - by a whopping margin - drug overdose. And the most common deadly drug is cocaine, according to the study by Dr. Ingrid Binswanger (University of Colorado at Denver & Health Sciences Center) which will appear in this week's New England Journal of Medicine.

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