Risk Factors for Prescription Painkiller Abuse and Overdose

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Risk Factors for Prescription Painkiller Abuse and Overdose | Prescription Drug Overdose | CDC Injury Center

This summary really conflates poor healthcare and intentional non-medical use of opioids as risks for overdose. It is cheaper to sloppily prescribe opioids than to do proper pain management (including expensive and labor-intensive physical therapy) and this bears out in the increased risk of overdose for poor and/or rural patients.

I’m still trying to tease this data apart.