Independent and joint contributions of physical disability and chronic pain to incident opioid use disorder and opioid overdose among Medicaid patients.
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| Title: | Independent and joint contributions of physical disability and chronic pain to incident opioid use disorder and opioid overdose among Medicaid patients. |
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| Authors: | Hoffman, Katherine L., Milazzo, Floriana, Williams, Nicholas T., Samples, Hillary, Olfson, Mark, Diaz, Ivan, Doan, Lisa, Cerda, Magdalena, Crystal, Stephen, Rudolph, Kara E. |
| Source: | Psychological Medicine. May2024, Vol. 54 Issue 7, p1419-1430. 12p. |
| Subjects: | Substance abuse risk factors, Drug overdose, Chronic pain, Research funding, Descriptive statistics, Treatment effectiveness, Attention, Opioid analgesics, Physician practice patterns, Medicaid, Drug prescribing, People with disabilities, Comorbidity, Patient aftercare, Disease risk factors, Disease complications |
| Abstract: | Background: Chronic pain has been extensively explored as a risk factor for opioid misuse, resulting in increased focus on opioid prescribing practices for individuals with such conditions. Physical disability sometimes co-occurs with chronic pain but may also represent an independent risk factor for opioid misuse. However, previous research has not disentangled whether disability contributes to risk independent of chronic pain. Methods: Here, we estimate the independent and joint adjusted associations between having a physical disability and co-occurring chronic pain condition at time of Medicaid enrollment on subsequent 18-month risk of incident opioid use disorder (OUD) and non-fatal, unintentional opioid overdose among non-elderly, adult Medicaid beneficiaries (2016–2019). Results: We find robust evidence that having a physical disability approximately doubles the risk of incident OUD or opioid overdose, and physical disability co-occurring with chronic pain increases the risks approximately sixfold as compared to having neither chronic pain nor disability. In absolute numbers, those with neither a physical disability nor chronic pain condition have a 1.8% adjusted risk of incident OUD over 18 months of follow-up, those with physical disability alone have an 2.9% incident risk, those with chronic pain alone have a 3.6% incident risk, and those with co-occurring physical disability and chronic pain have a 11.1% incident risk. Conclusions: 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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