Value for money in reducing opioid-related deaths

Association between opioid prescribing patterns and opioid overdose-related deaths.

CONTEXT The rate of prescription opioid-related overdose death increased substantially in the United States over the past decade. Patterns of opioid prescribing may be related to risk of overdose mortality. OBJECTIVE To examine the association of maximum prescribed daily opioid dose and dosing schedule ("as needed," regularly scheduled, or both) with risk of opioid overdose death among patien...

Effectiveness of Scotland's National Naloxone Programme for reducing opioid‐related deaths: a before (2006–10) versus after (2011–13) comparison

AIMS To assess the effectiveness for Scotland's National Naloxone Programme (NNP) by comparison between 2006-10 (before) and 2011-13 (after NNP started in January 2011) and to assess cost-effectiveness. DESIGN This was a pre-post evaluation of a national policy. Cost-effectiveness was assessed by prescription costs against life-years gained per opioid-related death (ORD) averted. SETTING Sc...

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION AssociationBetweenOpioidPrescribingPatterns and Opioid Overdose-Related Deaths

THE RATE OF OVERDOSE MORTALity increased sharply in the United States in the past decade and overdose mortality is a pressing public health problem. Between 1999 and 2007, the rate of unintentional overdose death in the United States increased by 124%, largely because of increases in prescription opioid overdoses. Achieving a better understanding of the factors contributing to prescription opio...

Value for Money

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