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- Title
Opioid prescriptions for chronic pain and overdose: a cohort study.
- Authors
Dunn, Kate M; Saunders, Kathleen W; Rutter, Carolyn M; Banta-Green, Caleb J; Merrill, Joseph O; Sullivan, Mark D; Weisner, Constance M; Silverberg, Michael J; Campbell, Cynthia I; Psaty, Bruce M; Von Korff, Michael
- Abstract
Long-term opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain is becoming increasingly common in community practice. Concomitant with this change in practice, rates of fatal opioid overdose have increased. The extent to which overdose risks are elevated among patients receiving medically prescribed long-term opioid therapy is unknown.
- Publication
Annals of internal medicine, 2010, Vol 152, Issue 2, p85
- ISSN
1539-3704
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.7326/0003-4819-152-2-201001190-00006