Initiation of heroin and prescription opioid pain relievers by birth cohort

S.P. Novak, R. Bluthenthal, L. Wenger, D. Chu and A.H. Kral

American Journal of Public Health, 2016, vol. 106, issue 2, 298-300

Abstract: We examined initiation patterns among different birth cohorts of people who used prescription opioids and heroin because of historical differences in drug use availability. We examined data from a community-based study of persons who inject drugs (n = 483) in California and a general population survey from the National Survey on Drug Use andHealth (n = 1264) and found that individuals born after 1980 were more likely than were individuals born before 1980 to initiate opioids through nonmedical use of prescription opioids than heroin.

Keywords: diamorphine; narcotic analgesic agent, adolescent; adult; aged; California; cohort analysis; human; middle aged; onset age; pain; Prescription Drug Misuse; Substance-Related Disorders; young adult, Adolescent; Adult; Age of Onset; Aged; Analgesics, Opioid; California; Cohort Studies; Heroin; Humans; Middle Aged; Pain; Prescription Drug Misuse; Substance-Related Disorders; Young Adult (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302972

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