Physician prescribing practices and opioid misuse in the USA

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA; Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA.
² Department of Thoracic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA; Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA.
³ Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA; Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA; Department of Thoracic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA; Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA. Electronic address: emanuela.taioli@mountsinai.org.

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Stephanie Tuminello et al. Lancet Psychiatry. 2019 Mar.

. 2019 Mar;6(3):e7.

doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30029-X.

¹ Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA; Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA.
² Department of Thoracic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA; Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA.
³ Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA; Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA; Department of Thoracic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA; Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA. Electronic address: emanuela.taioli@mountsinai.org.

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Opioid prescribing trends and geographical variation in England, 1998-2018: a retrospective database study.
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