Pain Management Treatments and Opioid Use Disorder Risk in Medicaid Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

People with chronic pain are at increased risk of opioid misuse. Less is known about the unique risk conferred by each pain management treatment, as treatments are typically implemented together, confounding their independent effects. This study estimated the extent to which pain management treatments were associated with risk of opioid use disorder (OUD) for those with chronic pain, controlling for baseline demographic and clinical confounding variables and holding other pain management treatments at their observed levels.

Methods

Data were analyzed in 2024 from 2 chronic pain subgroups within a cohort of non-pregnant Medicaid patients aged 35-64 years, 2016-2019, from 25 states: those with (1) chronic pain and physical disability (CPPD) (N=6,133) or (2) chroni

SUBMITTER: Rudolph KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11585455 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature