Background: The purpose of this comprehensive review was to investigate risk factors
associated with prolonged opioid use after orthopaedic procedures. A comprehensive …

Background Given the increased attention to the opioid epidemic and the role of
inappropriate prescribing, there has been a marked increase in the number of studies using …

Background Although opioid abuse is a rising epidemic in the USA, there are no studies to
date on the incidence of persistent opioid use following injuries. Therefore, the aims of this …

The US has addressed the opioid crisis using a two-front approach: state regulations limiting
opioid prescriptions for acute pain patients, and voluntary federal CDC guidelines on shifting …

Objective Whether short-term, low-potency opioid prescriptions for acute pain lead to future
at-risk opioid use remains controversial and inadequately characterized. Our objective was …

Background Long-term prescription opioid use is a significant risk factor for opioid morbidity
and mortality, and severe traumatic injury is an important initiation point for prescription …

Purpose A comprehensive review of the literature on the time between the onset of
symptoms and the first episode of care and its effects on important worker outcomes in …

Routinely collected data have been increasingly used to assess long‐term opioid therapy
(LTOT) patterns, with very little guidance on how to measure LTOT from these data sources …

Purpose The number of patients tapered from long‐term opioid therapy (LTOT) has
increased in recent years in the United States. Some patients tapered from LTOT report …

Background: Prescription opioid overdose has increased markedly and is of great concern
among injured workers receiving workers' compensation insurance. Given the association …