Independent and joint contributions of physical disability and chronic pain to incident opioid use disorder and opioid overdose among Medicaid patients.
Katherine L HoffmanFloriana MilazzoNicholas T WilliamsHillary SamplesMark OlfsonIvan DiazLisa DoanMagdalena CerdaStephen CrystalKara E RudolphPublished in: Psychological medicine (2023)
These findings suggest that those with a physical disability should receive increased attention from the medical and healthcare communities to reduce their risk of opioid misuse and attendant negative outcomes.