RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
Study finds 3% of people initiating prescription opioids become sustained users over a five-year period
A new study led by researchers at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), UNSW Sydney, has explored patterns of prescription opioid use over five years among people initiating opioids for the first time.
The study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, used trajectory modelling to examine patterns of prescription opioid use over a five-year period following a new dispensing among the POPPY II study cohort.
