Considering prescription opioid-related harms in the population: response to commentaries

Addiction. 2014 Feb;109(2):186-8. doi: 10.1111/add.12423.

Authors

Benedikt Fischer¹, Annette Keates, Gerhard Bühringer, Jens Reimer, Jürgen Rehm

Affiliation

¹ Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addictions (CARMHA), Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Social and Epidemiological Research Department, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. bfischer@sfu.ca.

PMID: 24422613
DOI: 10.1111/add.12423

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid / adverse effects*
Chronic Pain / drug therapy*
Humans
Opioid-Related Disorders / mortality*
Prescription Drug Misuse / mortality*
Prescription Drug Misuse / statistics & numerical data*

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid

Grants and funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada