Characterising incident opioid use among incident users of prescription sedative hypnotics: A national cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate co-prescribing of sedatives hypnotics and opioids.

Design

Retrospective study evaluating the association of patient characteristics and comorbidities with coprescribing.

Setting and participants

Using the national Merative MarketScan Database between 2005 and 2018, we identified patients who received an incident sedative prescription with or without subsequent, incident opioid prescriptions within a year of the sedative prescription in the USA.

Outcome measures

Coprescription of sedative-hypnotics and opioids.

Results

A total of 2 632 622 patients (mean (SD) age, 43.2 (12.34) years; 1 297 356 (62.5%) female) received incident prescriptions for sedatives over the course of the study period. The largest proportion of sedative prescrib

SUBMITTER: Thornton JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11138274 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature