Introduction Over the past decade, there has been mounting recognition that opioid use and
related mortality and morbidity is a significant public health problem in rural, non-urban …

Analysis of patient opioid prescription data from a national electronic health record vendor
during 2014–2017 found that the percentage of patients prescribed an opioid was higher in …

Background Balance between benefits and harms of using opioids for the management of
chronic noncancer pain (CNCP) must be carefully considered on a case-by-case basis …

Barriers, facilitators, and resources to opioid deprescribin... : PAIN Barriers, facilitators, and
resources to opioid deprescribing in primary care: experiences of general practitioners in …

Opioid‐related overdose deaths among African Americans have only recently received
national attention despite evidence of increase in death rates among this population …

Previous literature on the uneven development of the opioid crisis across US counties fails
to account for the temporal and spatial dependency simultaneously. Assembling a …

Background and Objectives: Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) may help clinicians
prescribe opioids for chronic noncancer pain (CNCP) more appropriately. This scoping …

Substance use is a major public health problem with a host of negative outcomes. Justice-
involved youth have even higher risks and lack access to evidence-based interventions …

Background: With the increasing use of narcotic analgesics, the Ministry of Food and Drug
Safety has been operating the National Narcotics Information Management System (NIMS) …

Background: Across Canada, opioid-related hospitalizations, emergency department visits,
and mortality have increased. A literature gap exists related to opioid prescribing and safety …