Non-medical use of prescription opioids is associated with heroin initiation among US veterans: a prospective cohort study

The Prescription Opioid and Heroin Crisis: A Public Health Approach to an Epidemic of Addiction

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Long-term Prescription of Opioids and/or Benzodiazepines and Mortality Among HIV-Infected and Uninfected Patients

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Trends in Opioid Analgesic Abuse and Mortality in the United States

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Racial Disparities Across Provider Specialties in Opioid Prescriptions Dispensed to Medicaid Beneficiaries with Chronic Noncancer Pain

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Ranking the harm of non-medically used prescription opioids in the UK

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(2013) Christopher M. Jones   DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

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(2012) Sean Esteban McCabe   ARCHIVES OF PEDIATRICS & ADOLESCENT MEDICINE

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(2012) Steven K. Dobscha et al.   CLINICAL JOURNAL OF PAIN

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(2012) E. Jennifer Edelman et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE

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(2011) Nidhi Khosla et al.   ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS

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Risk factors for drug dependence among out-patients on opioid therapy in a large US health-care system

(2010) Joseph A. Boscarino et al.   ADDICTION

Patterns of drug use and abuse among aging adults with and without HIV: A latent class analysis of a US Veteran cohort

(2010) Traci C. Green et al.   DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

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(2009) Carol J. Boyd et al.   JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH

Prevalence of chronic pain, posttraumatic stress disorder, and persistent postconcussive symptoms in OIF/OEF veterans: Polytrauma clinical triad

(2009) Henry L. Lew et al.   JOURNAL OF REHABILITATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Inverse probability-of-censoring weights for the correction of time-varying noncompliance in the effect of randomized highly active antiretroviral therapy on incident AIDS or death

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