Opioid prescribing is rising in many countries

BMJ. 2019 Oct 17:367:l5823. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l5823.

Authors

Blair H Smith¹, Emma H Fletcher², Lesley A Colvin³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Population Health and Genomics, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK b.h.smith@dundee.ac.uk.
² NHS Tayside, Dundee, UK.
³ Division of Population Health and Genomics, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.

PMID: 31624081
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.l5823

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid / administration & dosage*
Analgesics, Opioid / adverse effects
Chronic Pain / drug therapy*
Drug Overdose / epidemiology
Drug Prescriptions
Humans
Inappropriate Prescribing / statistics & numerical data*
Opioid-Related Disorders / epidemiology*
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / statistics & numerical data*

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid