Patients with low back pain or pain at multiple sites at highest risk for chronic opioid use
1. Risk factors for chronic opioid use were highest in patients that had multiple sites of pain or low back ...
Tag: addiction
Long-acting buprenorphine depot injections may be efficacious in treatment of opioid use disorder
1. In this double-blind randomized controlled trial, weekly or monthly buprenorphine depot injections were non-inferior to daily sublingual buprenorphine/naloxone in ...
Household prescription opioid exposure linked to small increased risk of opioid initiation
1. Household member opioid prescription was linked to a small increase in the risk of personal opioid prescription compared to ...
Multicomponent intervention linked to improved guideline adherence in long-term opioid therapy
1. In this cluster-randomized trial targeting primary care clinicians (PCC) treating patients with long-term opioid therapy in safety-net practices, a ...
Medical use of prescription opioids linked to nonmedical use in adolescents
1. Adolescents who initiated nonmedical use of prescription opioids more commonly had previous medical use of prescriptions opioids rather than ...
AAP supports public health interventions for opioid-dependent pregnant women
1. Opioid use in pregnancy has increased dramatically in the past decade, leading to increased rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome ...
