US Trends in Long-Term Opioid Therapy

This study assesses national trends in the prevalence of long-term opioid therapy and the characteristics of patients using data from a longitudinal prescription database containing prescriptions from US retail pharmacies.

Corresponding Author: Thuy D. Nguyen, PhD, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (thuydn@umich.edu).

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