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1 to 2 of 2 Research Studies DisplayedRentsch CT, Edelman EJ, Justice AC
Patterns and correlates of prescription opioid receipt among US Veterans: a national, 18-year observational cohort study.
A better understanding of predisposition to transition to high-dose, long-term opioid therapy after initial opioid receipt could facilitate efforts to prevent opioid use disorder (OUD). In this study, the investigators extracted data on 69,268 patients in the Veterans Aging Cohort Study who received any opioid prescription between 1998 and 2015. They identified four distinguishable dose trajectories. The authors indicate that their measures could potentially be used in future prevention research, including genetic discovery.
AHRQ-funded; HS021112; HS023258.
Citation: Rentsch CT, Edelman EJ, Justice AC .
Patterns and correlates of prescription opioid receipt among US Veterans: a national, 18-year observational cohort study.
AIDS Behav 2019 Dec;23(12):3340-49. doi: 10.1007/s10461-019-02608-3..
Keywords: Opioids, Medication, Substance Abuse, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Pain, Chronic Conditions
Wisk LE, Levy S, Weitzman ER
Parental views on state cannabis laws and marijuana use for their medically vulnerable children.
Given a rapidly changing policy landscape, the investigators sought to characterize the effects of state marijuana laws on parents' views of marijuana use by their teenage children. The investigators found that among parents of medically vulnerable children, perceiving state marijuana policies as more permissive was strongly associated with lower perceived riskiness of marijuana use for their children.
AHRQ-funded; HS022986.
Citation: Wisk LE, Levy S, Weitzman ER .
Parental views on state cannabis laws and marijuana use for their medically vulnerable children.
Drug Alcohol Depend 2019 Jun 1;199:59-67. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.12.027..
Keywords: Children/Adolescents, Policy, Vulnerable Populations, Chronic Conditions, Substance Abuse