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SUBMITTER: Dowell D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6583870 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dowell Deborah D Zhang Kun K Noonan Rita K RK Hockenberry Jason M JM
Health affairs (Project Hope) 20161001 10
To address the opioid overdose epidemic in the United States, states have implemented policies to reduce inappropriate opioid prescribing. These policies could affect the coincident heroin overdose epidemic by either driving the substitution of heroin for opioids or reducing simultaneous use of both substances. We used IMS Health's National Prescription Audit and government mortality data to examine the effect of these policies on opioid prescribing and on prescription opioid and heroin overdose ...[more]