Ageing opioid users ’ increased risk of methadone-specific death in the UK

The first evidence that the hazard ratio (HR) for methadone-specific death rises more steeply with age-group than for all drug-related deaths (DRDs) came from Scotland ’s cohort of 33,000 methadone-prescription clients. We aim to examine, for England, whether illicit opioid users’ risk of methadone-specific death increases with age; and to pool age-related HRs for methadone-specific deaths with those for Scotland’s methadone-prescription clients.

Source: International Journal of Drug Policy - March 22, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Matthias Pierce, Tim Millar, J. Roy Robertson, Sheila M. Bird Tags: Research Paper Source Type: research