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Prescription opioids and economic hardship in France. [PDF]
Eur J Health Econ, 2023 AbstractThis paper studies how opioid analgesic sales are empirically related to socioeconomic disparities in France, with a focus on poverty. This analysis is made possible using the OpenHealth database, which provides retail sales data for opioid analgesics available on the French market.
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Factors associated with frequent or daily use of prescription opioids among adults with chronic pain in the United States [PDF]
Journal of International Medical Research, 2023 Objectives We aimed to estimate utilization rates of prescription opioids among adults with chronic pain in the United States (US) and identify factors associated with the frequent or daily use of prescription opioids.
Jae Kennedy +2 more
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International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2023 This study is the first to investigate the prevalence of filled opioid prescriptions among indigenous Sami people with self-reported chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMSP) and compare it with that of non-Sami living in the same area.
Astrid M.A. Eriksen +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Opioid prescribing data can guide regulation policy by informing trends and types of opioids prescribed and geographic variations. In South Korea, the nationwide data on prescribing opioids remain unclear.
Noo Ree Cho +5 more
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Modeling the Prescription Opioid Epidemic [PDF]
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2019 27 pages, 13 figures. Bull Math Biol (2019)
Nicholas A. Battista +2 more
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Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2020 Background State governments in the United States are increasingly viewing marijuana legalization as a policy option for controlling the opioid epidemic under the premise that marijuana is a less harmful substitute for opioids.
Guohua Li, Stanford Chihuri
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Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2022 Objective To quantify unused opioids among adult and pediatric patients discharged from the emergency department (ED) or ambulatory care settings with a prescription for acute pain.
Michele P. Dyson +6 more
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Prescription Drug Monitoring and Dispensing of Prescription Opioids [PDF]
Public Health Reports®, 2014 Objective. In the United States, per-capita opioid dispensing has increased concurrently with analgesic-related mortality and morbidity since the 1990s. To deter diversion and abuse of controlled substances, most states have implemented electronic prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs).
Joanne E, Brady +5 more
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Opioid-Prescribing Continuity and Risky Opioid Prescriptions [PDF]
The Annals of Family Medicine, 2018 We aimed to better understand the association between opioid-prescribing continuity, risky prescribing patterns, and overdose risk. For this retrospective cohort study, we included patients with long-term opioid use, pulling data from Oregon's Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP), vital records, and hospital discharge registry.
Hallvik, Sara E. +6 more
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Evaluation of a novel metric for personalized opioid prescribing after hospitalization.
PLoS ONE, 2020 BackgroundThe duration of an opioid prescribed at hospital discharge does not intrinsically account for opioid needs during a hospitalization. This discrepancy may lead to patients receiving much larger supplies of opioids on discharge than they truly ...
Nicholas R Iverson +7 more
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