January 14, 2016Open Access

Relationship between Nonmedical Prescription-Opioid Use and Heroin Use

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A large fraction of heroin users now report that they formerly used prescription opioids nonmedically, a finding that has led to restrictions on opioid prescribing. Nevertheless, only a small fraction of prescription-opioid users move on to heroin use.

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Compton et al. (Thu,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d83592f4e559c61eae2e40 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmra1508490

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