Illicit opioid use following changes in opioids prescribed for chronic non-cancer pain.

<h4>Background</h4>After decades of increased opioid pain reliever prescribing, providers are rapidly reducing prescribing. We hypothesized that reduced access to prescribed opioid pain relievers among patients previously reliant upon opioid pain relievers would result in increased illic...

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Main Authors: Phillip O Coffin, Christopher Rowe, Natalie Oman, Katie Sinchek, Glenn-Milo Santos, Mark Faul, Rita Bagnulo, Deeqa Mohamed, Eric Vittinghoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232538