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Are Prescription Opioids Driving the Opioid Crisis? Assumptions vs Facts

OBJECTIVE: Sharp increases in opioid prescriptions, and associated increases in overdose deaths in the 2000s, evoked widespread calls to change perceptions of opioid analgesics. Medical literature discussions of opioid analgesics began emphasizing patient and public health hazards. Repetitive exposu...

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Autor principal: Rose, Mark Edmund
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6018937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28402482
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnx048