Abstract
A five-sentence letter published in the Journal in 1980 has been heavily cited as evidence that long-term opioid therapy has seldom been associated with addiction. Of the 608 citations, 72.2% used the letter uncritically as evidence that such addiction was rare.
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Leung, P. T. M., Macdonald, E. M., Stanbrook, M. B., Dhalla, I. A., & Juurlink, D. N. (2017). A 1980 Letter on the Risk of Opioid Addiction. New England Journal of Medicine, 376(22), 2194–2195. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmc1700150
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