Cohort Study of the Impact of High-Dose Opioid Analgesics on Overdose Mortality

Pain Medicine : the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
Nabarun DasguptaSteve Marshall

Abstract

Previous studies examining opioid dose and overdose risk provide limited granularity by milligram strength and instead rely on thresholds. We quantify dose-dependent overdose mortality over a large spectrum of clinically common doses. We also examine the contributions of benzodiazepines and extended release opioid formulations to mortality. Prospective observational cohort with one year follow-up. One year in one state (NC) using a controlled substances prescription monitoring program, with name-linked mortality data. Residential population of North Carolina (n = 9,560,234), with 2,182,374 opioid analgesic patients. Exposure was dispensed prescriptions of solid oral and transdermal opioid analgesics; person-years calculated using intent-to-treat principles. Outcome was overdose deaths involving opioid analgesics in a primary or additive role. Poisson models were created, implemented using generalized estimating equations. Opioid analgesics were dispensed to 22.8% of residents. Among licensed clinicians, 89.6% prescribed opioid analgesics, and 40.0% prescribed ER formulations. There were 629 overdose deaths, half of which had an opioid analgesic prescription active on the day of death. Of 2,182,374 patients prescribed opioids, 4...Continue Reading

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