High-Dose Opioid Prescribing in Individuals with Acute Pain: Assessing the Effects of US State Opioid Policies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

How state opioid policy environments with multiple concurrent policies affect opioid prescribing to individuals with acute pain is unknown.

Objective

To examine how prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs), pain management clinic regulations, initial prescription duration limits, and mandatory continued medical education affected total and high-dose prescribing.

Design

A county-level multiple-policy difference-in-difference event study framework.

Subjects

A total of 2,425,643 individuals in a large national commercial insurance deidentified claims database (aged 12-64 years) with acute pain diagnoses and opioid prescriptions from 2007 to 2019.

Main measures

The total number of acute pain opioid treatment episodes and number of episodes co

SUBMITTER: Bradford AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11534911 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature