Among commercially insured patients with a previous opioid overdose, repeated overdose within 2 years occurred in 17% of those prescribed 100 MME/day or more, 15% of those prescribed 50–100 MME/day, 9% of those prescribed less than 50 MME/day, and 8% of those prescribed no opioids.
Notes on verification
Confirmed against the original peer-reviewed study (Larochelle et al., 2016, Annals of Internal Medicine) with matching figures corroborated by multiple independent secondary sources including UpToDate and Duke Scholars database. [tier=silver indep_score=0.812 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain (seed:health_and_medicine)
- https://www.uptodate.com/contents/prescription-drug-misuse-epidemiology-prevention-identification-and-management/abstract/46 (corroboration)
- https://scholars.duke.edu/publication/1492495 (corroboration)
- https://www.foxnews.com/health/many-continue-to-receive-opioid-prescriptions-after-overdose (corroboration)
- https://www.recoveryanswers.org/research-post/rates-of-repeated-overdose-linked-to-opioid-prescribing-after-non-fatal-overdoses/ (corroboration)