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Prescription opioids, alcohol and fatal motor vehicle crashes: a population-based case-control study
Injury Epidemiology, 2019 Background The prevalence of prescription opioid use among drivers has increased markedly in the past two decades. The purpose of this study is to assess the associations of prescription opioid use and alcohol use with the risk of fatal crash involvement
Guohua Li, Stanford Chihuri
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Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2018 Background As the availability of prescription opioids decreases and the availability of heroin increases, some prescription opioid users are transitioning to heroin.
Laura B. Monico, Shannon Gwin Mitchell
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Prescription opioids and longitudinal changes in cognitive function in older adults: A population-based observational study. [PDF]
J Am Geriatr Soc, 2022 Opioids are frequently prescribed to alleviate pain in older adults, yet the relationships between prescription opioids and long‐term cognitive function are unclear.
Warner NS +5 more
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Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2022 Background Beginning in the 1990s, nonmedical use of prescription opioids (POs) became a major public health crisis. In response to rising rates of opioid dependence and fatal poisonings, measures were instituted to decrease the prescription, diversion ...
Julia Dickson-Gomez +6 more
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Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.), 2020 OBJECTIVES This article presents findings from a large prospective examination of Canadian medical cannabis patients, with a focus on the impacts of cannabis on prescription opioid use and quality of life over a 6-month period.
P. Lucas, S. Boyd, M. Milloy, Z. Walsh
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Prescription Opioids and Labor Market Pains
The Journal of human resources, 2020 We examine the effect of prescription opioids on county labor market outcomes, using data from the Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs of ten U.S. states and labor data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We achieve causal identification by exploiting
M. Harris +3 more
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JAMA Network Open, 2020 Key Points Question Is obesity associated with prescription opioids for pain diagnoses among patients seeking primary care in the United States? Findings In this cross-sectional study of electronic health records of 565 930 patients, osteoarthritis ...
A. Stokes +7 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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PLoS ONE, 2022 The overall aim was to explore the prevalence and persistent regular prescription of opioids and paracetamol among nursing home (NH) residents with dementia at admission and over time.
Anne-Sofie Helvik +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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