Physician Dispensing of Oxycodone and Other Commonly Used Opioids, 2000–2015, United States | Zendy

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Physician Dispensing of Oxycodone and Other Commonly Used Opioids, 2000–2015, United States

Author(s) -

Karin A. Mack,

Christopher M. Jones,

Rod McClure

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

pain medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893

H-Index - 97

eISSN - 1526-4637

pISSN - 1526-2375

DOI - 10.1093/pm/pnx007

Subject(s) - oxycodone , medicine , medical prescription , heroin , opioid , descriptive statistics , pharmacy , distribution (mathematics) , opioid overdose , family medicine , morphine , controlled substance , medical emergency , (+) naloxone , emergency medicine , psychiatry , pharmacology , drug , mathematical analysis , statistics , receptor , mathematics

An average of 91 people in the United States die every day from an opioid-related overdose (including prescription opioids and heroin). The direct dispensing of opioids from health care practitioner offices has been linked to opioid-related harms. The objective of this study is to describe the changing nature of the volume of this type of prescribing at the state level.

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