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A 1980 Letter on the Risk of Opioid Addiction
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A five-sentence letter published in the Journal in 1980 has been heavily cited as evidence that long-term opioid therapy has seldom been associated with addiction. Of the 608 citations, 72.2% used the letter uncritically as evidence that such addiction was rare.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Leung, P. T. M., Macdonald, E. M., Stanbrook, M. B., Dhalla, I. A., & Juurlink, D. N.
- Affiliations
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (CA)
- Sunnybrook Research Institute (CA)
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 2017-06
- Volume
- 376
- Issue
- 22
- Pages
- 2194-2195
- ISSN
- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
- OpenAlex
- W2618923223
- Cited by
- 193
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 35 · 2018: 39 · 2017: 11
- FWCI
- 26.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- New England Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine › Pain Management and Opioid Use
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine › Anesthesia and Pain Management
- Keywords
- opioid use disorder, long-term opioid therapy, opioid prescribing, addiction risk
- MeSH terms
- Analgesics, Opioid, Humans, Opioid-Related Disorders, Risk, Bibliometrics, History, 20th Century, Chronic Pain
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