Relationship between Nonmedical Prescription-Opioid Use and Heroin Use

作者：Wilson M. Compton, Christopher McCall Jones, Grant T. Baldwin · 发表于：New England Journal of Medicine · 年份：2016 · DOI：10.1056/nejmra1508490 · 被引用次数：1062 · 研究领域：Opioid Use Disorder Treatment、Pain Management and Opioid Use、Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects

A large fraction of heroin users now report that they formerly used prescription opioids nonmedically, a finding that has led to restrictions on opioid prescribing. Nevertheless, only a small fraction of prescription-opioid users move on to heroin use.