Trends in medical and nonmedical use of prescription opioids among US adolescents: 1976 2015. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Trends in medical and nonmedical use of prescription opioids among US adolescents: 1976 2015. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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• Published March 2017

Trends in medical and nonmedical use of prescription opioids among US adolescents: 1976–2015.

McCabe SE, West BT, Veliz P, McCabe VV, Stoddard SA, Boyd CJ. Pediatrics. 2017;139:e2016-e2387.

Opioid use is a patient safety epidemic. This survey of high school seniors in the United States found that prescription opioid use usually precedes nonmedical opioid use, suggesting that improving prescribing practices in accordance with the recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guideline is important to address medical and nonmedical opioid use.

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