Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and
social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …

Study objective Increasing opioid prescribing has been linked to an epidemic of opioid
misuse. Our objective is to synthesize the available evidence about patient-, prescriber …

Objectives. To estimate health outcomes of policies to mitigate the opioid epidemic.
Methods. We used dynamic compartmental modeling of US adults, in various pain, opioid …

Importance Limiting opioid overprescribing in the emergency department (ED) may be
associated with decreases in diversion and misuse. Objective To review and analyze …

Purpose Our objective was to elucidate the trends in non-medical use of prescription opioids
(NMUPO) among whites, African-Americans, and Hispanic adolescents in the United States …

Abstract This second Guideline for Reasonable and Appropriate Care in the Emergency
Department (GRACE‐2) from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine is on the topic …

Challenges with opioids (eg, adverse events, misuse and abuse with long-term
administration) have led to a renewed emphasis on opioid-sparing multimodal management …

Background: Patients with a history of substance use are more likely than those without
substance use to experience chronic noncancer pain (CNCP), to be prescribed opioids, and …

Background The opioid crisis continues to take an unprecedented number of lives and is the
top cause of injury death in the United States. The emergency department is a setting where …

Background The prevalence of continued opioid use or serious adverse events (SAEs)
following opioid therapy in the emergency department (ED) for musculoskeletal pain is …