Trends in Medical and Nonmedical Use of Prescription Opioids Among US Adolescents: 1976-2015.
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...Opioid prescribing increased 350% between 1999 and 2015, from 180 to 640 morphine milligram equivalents per capita (1), with parallel increases in nonmedical use (2, 3), neonatal abstinence syndrome (4), and deaths due to both prescription opioid and heroin overdose (5, 6)....
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...First, the prescription rates of opioid medications have increased dramatically over the past few decades (Compton and Volkow, 2006; McCabe et al., 2017; Okie, 2010)....
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...The implications for clinical practice given these data and the current opioid epidemic are multiple: (1) use of prescription drug monitoring programs to assist in identifying misuse as routine practice; (2) clinical decisionmaking with adolescents and parents or guardians about risks and benefits of pain management with and without prescription opioids, including the importance of proper storage, monitoring, and disposal of prescription opioids; (3) screening for NUPO, substance use disorders, and other mental health disorders; (4) prescribing...
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