Contributions of prescribed and non-prescribed opioids to opioid related deaths: population based cohort study in Ontario, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the contributions of prescribed and non-prescribed opioids to opioid related deaths.

Design

Population based cohort study.

Setting

Ontario, Canada, from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2016.

Participants

All Ontarians who died of an opioid related cause.

Exposure

Active opioid prescriptions, defined as those with a duration overlapping the date of death, and recent opioid prescriptions, defined as those dispensed in the 30 and 180 days preceding death. Postmortem toxicology results from the Drug and Drug/Alcohol Related Death database were used to characterise deaths on the basis of presence of prescribed and non-prescribed (that is, diverted or illicit) opioids, overall and stratified by year and age.

Results

2833 opioid relat

SUBMITTER: Gomes T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6113771 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature