Introduction We examine the current status of the military relevance of opioids, their use and
misuse in military and veteran populations, the national security consequences of opioid use …

This paper is the forty-second consecutive installment of the annual anthological review of
research concerning the endogenous opioid system, summarizing articles published during …

Objective To assess the association between long term prescription opioid treatment
medically dispensed for non-cancer pain and the initiation of injection drug use (IDU) among …

Background Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP), by reducing access to
prescribed opioids (POs), may contribute to a policy environment in which some people with …

Background: No prior studies have characterized long-term patterns of opioid use
regardless of source or reason for use among patients with HIV (PWH). We sought to identify …

The management of chronic noncancer pain (CNCP) with chronic opioid therapy (COT) is
controversial. There is a lack of consensus on how COT is defined resulting in unclear …

Heroin dependency has become a global problem and has caused significant clinical and
socioeconomic burdens along with devastating medical consequences. Chronic drug …

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 …

Opioids are often used to provide postsurgical analgesia but may cause harm if used
inappropriately. We introduced an opioid stewardship program in three Melbourne hospitals …

Abstract Background The Opioid Safety Initiative (OSI) was implemented in 2013 to enhance
the safe and appropriate use of opioids in the Veterans Health Administration (VA). Opioid …