Prescription opioid use among individuals with serious mental illness.

The increasing use of prescription opioids (Mojtabai, 2017) has led to increased public health concern (Dart, et al., 2015; Smith, 2017). Past studies noted that prescription opioid analgesic use is associated with risk of prescription opioid analgesic misuse (Edlund, et al. 2014; Edlund, et al., 2010a) and illicit opioid use (Edlund, et al., 2010a; Mojtabai, 2017). Increases in opioid overdoses (Chen, et al., 2014; Paulozzi, 2012) prompted the CDC to declare an “opioid overdose epidemic” (CDC, 2015).

Source: Psychiatry Research - May 31, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Stanislav Spivak, Bernadette Cullen, William Eaton, Katie Nugent, Amethyst Spivak, Ashley Fenton, Katrina Rodriguez, Ramin Mojtabai Source Type: research