Open Access<p>Greater Pain Severity is Associated with Inability to Access Addiction Treatment Among a Cohort of People Who Use Drugs</p>
Author(s) -
Pauline Voon,
Linwei Wang,
Ekateriosova,
Kanna Hayashi,
M.J. Milloy,
Evan Wood,
Thomas Kerr
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of pain research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.888
H-Index - 49
ISSN - 1178-7090
DOI - 10.2147/jpr.s255438
Subject(s) - medicine , addiction , odds , odds ratio , cohort , addiction medicine , cohort study , psychiatry , logistic regression
Given that co-occurring pain is prevalent among people who use drugs (PWUD), we sought to explore the effect of pain severity on accessing addiction treatment.