作者
David C Sheridan, Amber Laurie, Robert G Hendrickson, Rongwei Fu, Bory Kea, B Zane Horowitz
发表日期
2016/11/1
期刊
The Journal of emergency medicine
卷号
51
期号
5
页码范围
485-490
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background
Opioid abuse is a public health epidemic in the United States. Much literature has focused on the prescribing practices of physicians and opioid misuse by adults. However, there are limited data on the effect of opioid prescriptions on adolescent recreational ingestion of these medications.
Objectives
The objective of this study was to assess for a relationship between opioid prescribing practices across the United States and adolescent opioid ingestion calls to poison centers.
Methods
This was an observational study using the National Poison Data System. The study population consisted of poison center calls regarding adolescents between 2005 and 2010 in the database with a coding of “intentional abuse” and an opioid ingestion. National opioid prescription estimates were generated using nationally representative outpatient and inpatient databases.
Results
There were 4186 adolescent opioid ingestion …
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