of opioid prescriptions dispensed to children and young adults aged 0 to 21 years.
METHODS We identified opioid prescriptions dispensed to children and young adults in
2019 in the IQVIA Longitudinal Prescription Database, which captures 92% of US
pharmacies. We calculated the proportion of all US children and young adults with≥ 1
dispensed opioid prescription in 2019. We calculated performance on 6 metrics of high-risk …