A flood of opioids, a rising tide of deaths.

By S. Okie. New England Journal of Medicine, 2010

852 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Surgery

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Citations in the corpus

• Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century (2015, background): “Tighter controls on opioid prescription brought some substitution into heroin and, in this period, the US saw falling prices and rising quality of heroin, as well as availability in areas where heroin had been previously largely unknown (14, 24, 25).”
• A comprehensive review of opioid-induced hyperalgesia. (2011, background): “Among those problems are a lack of evidence supporting their long-term effectiveness, misuse and abuse of prescription opioids, and multiple adverse events associated with long-term opioid use, including opioidinduced hyperalgesia (OIH) (1-17).”
• RELIEVING PAIN IN AMERICA: A BLUEPRINT FOR TRANSFORMING PREVENTION, CARE, EDUCATION, AND RESEARCH (2012, background): “and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) (Okie, 2010; FDA, 2011) for all extendedrelease and long-acting opioid medications.”