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. 2025 Jun 27.
doi: 10.1007/s10935-025-00861-y. Online ahead of print.

Understanding Opioid Use from Retrospective Accounts of Young Adults in Recovery: Motives, Experiences, and Implications for Prevention

Parissa J Ballard  1 , Elena M Vidrascu  2 , Taylor J Arnold  3 , Guadalupe C Hernandez  4 , Emily J Ozer  5 , Rebekah Lassiter  6 , Himani Nayyar  6 , Stephanie S Daniel  3 , Mark Wolfson  7
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Understanding Opioid Use from Retrospective Accounts of Young Adults in Recovery: Motives, Experiences, and Implications for Prevention

Parissa J Ballard et al. J Prev (2022). .
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Keywords: Motives; Opioid use; Youth and young adults.

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Declarations. Compliance with Ethical Standards: All the procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of Wake Forest University School of Medicine IRB (IRB IRB00054756). This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health grant number 5K01DA048201.

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