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Post-injury use of opioid analgesics in patients with traumatic injury: A registry-based study.
Authors
Torp HA, Skurtveit SO, Gustavsen I, Gran JM, Rosseland LAAbstract
Opioid analgesics are commonly used to treat acute and chronic pain following traumatic injury. Psychiatric comorbidity has been reported to be associated with increased pain and persistent opioid use. Our aims were to determine the extent of post-injury opioid use and assess whether pre-injury antidepressant, benzodiazepine, and z-hypnotic drug use is associated with increased post-injury opioid use.