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. 2025 Feb 9;197(5):E133-E134.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.250094.

Preventing harms from first prescriptions of opioids

Donna L Reynolds  1 , Raoul Daoust  2 , Melissa Subnath  2 , Heather Limburg  2
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Preventing harms from first prescriptions of opioids

Donna L Reynolds et al. CMAJ. .
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Competing interests:: Donna Reynolds is a volunteer member of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care. No other competing interests were declared.

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