County-Level Opioid Prescribing in the United States, 2015 and 2017

JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Apr 1;179(4):574-576. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.6989.

Authors

Gery P Guy Jr¹, Kun Zhang¹, Lyna Z Schieber¹, Randall Young², Deborah Dowell¹

Affiliations

¹ National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
² Division of Toxicology and Human Health Sciences, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.

Abstract

This study examines trends in opioid prescribing at the US national and county levels during 2015 and 2017.

Publication types

Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid / pharmacology*
Drug Prescriptions / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Incidence
Opioid-Related Disorders / epidemiology
Opioid-Related Disorders / prevention & control*
Practice Patterns, Physicians'*
Retrospective Studies
Survival Rate / trends
United States / epidemiology

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid

Grants and funding

CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHS/United States