Opioid Prescribing Practice and Needs in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
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Open Access
- 1 December 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery
- Vol. 144 (12) , 1098-1103
Abstract
The epidemic of opioid abuse has continued to plague the United States. The rate of drug overdose deaths increased from 6.1 per 100 000 standard population in 1999 to 16.3 per 100 000 in 2015, with an overall mean increase of 5.5% per year.1 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 64 000 deaths in the United States were due to opioid overdose in 2016.2Keywords
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