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Correlations between population levels of prescription opioid use and prescription-opioid-related substance use treatment admissions in the USA and Canada since 2001

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Time Series Analysis of California’s Prescription Monitoring Program: Impact on Prescribing and Multiple Provider Episodes

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Breaking the News or Fueling the Epidemic? Temporal Association between News Media Report Volume and Opioid-Related Mortality

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The Promotion and Marketing of OxyContin: Commercial Triumph, Public Health Tragedy

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Comparison of provincial prescription drug plans and the impact on patients' annual drug expenditures

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Efficacy of Opioids for Chronic Pain

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Physicians Charged with Opioid Analgesic-Prescribing Offenses

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