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Five-Year Trajectories of Prescription Opioid Use.  Gisev N, Buizen L, Hopkins RE, et al.  JAMA Netw Open. 2023;6(8):e2328159. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.28159 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2808144

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25 Years On, OxyContin Marketing Push Still Exacting a Deadly Toll Aggressive marketing of OxyContin in the mid-1990s not only fueled the opioid crisis but also the spread of infectious diseases associated with injection drug use, a new analysis s...

THE toll of opioid dependence: A research report on the possible role of Toll-like receptor-4 and related immune markers in opioid dependence.  Mahintamani T, Basu D, Ghosh A, Luthra-Guptasarma M.  Indian J Psychiatry. 2023 Jun;65(6):626...

Left behind in pain - Extent and causes of global variations in access to morphine for medical use and actions to improve safe access.  The world is facing two crises related to the use of opioids. In the first, inappropriate use and over-pr...