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Relationship between Nonmedical Prescription-Opioid Use and Heroin Use

  • Compton W
  • Jones C
  • Baldwin G
New England Journal of Medicine (2016) 374(2) 154-163
DOI: 10.1056/nejmra1508490
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Abstract

A large fraction of heroin users now report that they formerly used prescription opioids nonmedically, a finding that has led to restrictions on opioid prescribing. Nevertheless, only a small fraction of prescription-opioid users move on to heroin use.

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Compton, W. M., Jones, C. M., & Baldwin, G. T. (2016). Relationship between Nonmedical Prescription-Opioid Use and Heroin Use. New England Journal of Medicine, 374(2), 154–163. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmra1508490

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