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. 2017 Jun 1;376(22):2194-2195.

doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1700150.

A 1980 Letter on the Risk of Opioid Addiction

Pamela T M Leung¹, Erin M Macdonald², Matthew B Stanbrook², Irfan A Dhalla³, David N Juurlink⁴

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¹ University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada david.juurlink@ices.on.ca.

PMID: 28564561
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1700150

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A 1980 Letter on the Risk of Opioid Addiction

Pamela T M Leung et al. N Engl J Med. 2017.

Free article

. 2017 Jun 1;376(22):2194-2195.

doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1700150.

Authors

Pamela T M Leung¹, Erin M Macdonald², Matthew B Stanbrook², Irfan A Dhalla³, David N Juurlink⁴

Affiliations

¹ University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada david.juurlink@ices.on.ca.

PMID: 28564561
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1700150

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Five sentence letter from 1980 helped create US opioid addiction crisis, study concludes.
McCarthy M. McCarthy M. BMJ. 2017 Jun 6;357:j2741. doi: 10.1136/bmj.j2741. BMJ. 2017. PMID: 28588040 No abstract available.
Limited evidence, faulty reasoning, and potential for a global opioid crisis.
Becker WC, Fiellin DA. Becker WC, et al. BMJ. 2017 Jul 5;358:j3115. doi: 10.1136/bmj.j3115. BMJ. 2017. PMID: 28679499 No abstract available.

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