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Chronic 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 2022Registered users

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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