UNSW Sydney medical researchers have shed light on post-hospital prescription opioid use.
A large, linked data study has detailed the scale of prescription opioid use – such as oxycodone, morphine, or tramadol – after a hospital or emergency department (ED) visit, while giving insight into how often people then go onto long-term and potentially problematic use of these medicines in NSW.
The study from UNSW’s National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) and the Medicines Intelligence Centre of Research Excellence found the proportion of hospital or ED visits where people started opioids and remained on them long-term was small and declined over the 2014 – 2020 period.
Read more: Long-term prescription opioid use after hospital declining: study (unsw.edu.au)
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