Opioid overdose deaths and potentially inappropriate opioid prescribing practices (PIP): a spatial epidemiological study - Stopka TJ, Amaravadi H, Kaplan AR, Hoh R, Bernson D, Chui KKH, Land T, Walley AY, Larochelle MR, Rose AJ.

INTRODUCTION: Opioid overdose deaths quintupled in Massachusetts between 2000 and 2016. Potentially inappropriate opioid prescribing practices (PIP) are associated with increases in overdoses. The purpose of this study was to conduct spatial epidemiologica...
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