Mortality risk among individuals who smoke opioids compared with those who inject: A propensity score‐matched cohort analysis of United States national treatment data
Among individuals in substance use treatment in the United States, those who usually smoke opioids appear to have a lower all-cause mortality risk than those who usually inject.
Authors
- Jay Unick
- Daniel Ciccarone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2355-5477)
- George Karandinos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0398-0692)
Institutions
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- University of Baltimore (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Addiction
- Published
- 2025-01-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/add.16740
- Citations
- 15
- Primary Topic
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 28.18
Funders
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Drug Abuse