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= Paid-up subscribersChronic use of prescription opioids and initiation of injecting drug use.Practitioner February 2022;266(1855):8-9
Chronic use of prescription opioids and initiation of injecting drug use
24 Feb 2022
The risk of initiating injecting drug use is eight times higher for patients who receive long-term prescription opioid medication for non-cancer pain compared with that of opioid naïve patients, a large retrospective cohort study from Canada has found. However, the five-year cumulative probability of injecting drug use initiation in this group was only 4%.
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