This guideline provides recommendations for clinicians providing pain care, including those
prescribing opioids, for outpatients aged≥ 18 years. It updates the CDC Guideline for …

Sleep health is an important factor across several physical and mental health disorders, and
a growing scientific consensus has identified sleep as a critical component of opioid use …

Opioids and benzodiazepines are increasingly used alone or in combination. However, the
combined use of these agents increases the risk for potentially lethal respiratory depression …

Importance Benzodiazepines are implicated in a growing number of overdose-related
deaths. Objectives To quantify patterns in outpatient benzodiazepine prescribing and to …

Background and aims While prescribed and illicit opioid use are primary drivers of the
national surges in overdose deaths, opioid overdose deaths in which stimulants are also …

Background The number of opioid-involved overdose deaths in the United States remains a
national crisis. The HEALing Communities Study (HCS) will test whether Communities That …

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the relative frequency of and risk factors for
prolonged opioid prescription (Rx_3–6:≥ 1 opioid prescription of any length between 3 and …

Substance use in pregnancy is common; nearly one of five of pregnant individuals have
pastmonth nicotine, alcohol, or illicit substance use, and more than one in 10 meet criteria …

Background and aims Little is known about opioid and gabapentinoid (OPI‐GABA) use
duration and dose patterns' associations with adverse outcome risks. We examined …

Better opioid prescribing practices, promoting effective opioid use disorder treatment,
improving naloxone access, and enhancing public health surveillance are strategies central …