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Jul 25, 2024

Opioid Prescribing Patterns After Imposition of Setting-Specific Limits on Prescription Duration

This study examined whether an opioid prescription duration limit policy tailored to different clinical settings was associated with shorter opioid prescription lengths.
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May 10, 2024

Drug-related Physician Continuing Medical Education Requirements, 2010-2020

A descriptive legal review of laws in all 50 states and D.C. searched for continuing medical education requirements for physicians regarding controlled substance prescribing, pain management, or substance use disorder treatment.
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Peer Comparison or Guideline-Based Feedback and Postsurgery Opioid Prescriptions: A Randomized Clinical Trial

In this cluster-RCT that included 640 surgeons, social norm-based email feedback sent to surgeons with postoperative opioid prescriptions above guideline-recommended amounts significantly reduced future guideline-discordant prescribing.
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Trends in Personal and Family Member Opioid Prescriptions Prior to a Diagnosis of an Opioid-Related Problem Among Adolescents and Young Adults

This study examined the proportion of adolescents and young adults who had an opioid-related problem and who also had a personal opioid prescription drug claim or had a family member with an opioid prescription drug claim prior to the diagnosis.
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Jun 30, 2023

America's Opioid Crisis: Adopting an Ecosystem Approach

The opioid crisis is metastasizing throughout society, reaching across public health and public safety, but also education, employment, and the child welfare system. Without profound change and new approaches to the crisis, hundreds of thousands of people could die in the coming years.
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Impact of Recreational Cannabis Legalization on Opioid Prescribing and Opioid-Related Hospital Visits in Colorado: An Observational Study

Our mixed findings suggest that further increases in cannabis beyond medical access may not always reduce opioid prescribing or opioid-related hospital visits at a population level.
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U.S. Opioid Crisis Best Viewed as Connected Ecosystem; Changing Policymakers' Approach Can Aid Solutions

The nation's opioid crisis, which kills thousands of Americans annually, is best viewed as an ecosystem where all parts of the vexing problem are interconnected, underscoring the need for holistic solutions that address the broad needs of those with substance use disorders, their families, and the communities where they live.
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America's Opioid Ecosystem: How Leveraging System Interactions Can Help Curb Addiction, Overdose, and Other Harms

Patterns and consequences of opioid use are changing dramatically. Researchers provide a nuanced assessment of America's opioid ecosystem, highlighting how leveraging system interactions can reduce addiction, overdose, suffering, and other harms.
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An Exploratory Analysis of Differential Prescribing of High-Risk Opioids by Insurance Type Among Patients Seen by the Same Clinician

The objective of this paper is to explore how high-risk opioid analgesic prescribing varies by payer type among patients seeing the same prescriber and identify clinician characteristics associated with variable prescribing.

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