Impact of workplace injury on opioid dependence, abuse, illicit use and overdose: a 36-month retrospective study of insurance claims

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• Alternative Title:
  Occup Environ Med
• Personal Author:
  Asfaw, Abay ; Boden, Leslie I
• Description:
  Objectives ; To examine the impact of workplace injury on opioid dependence, abuse and overdose (opioid-related morbidity) and if severity of injury increases the hazard of these health effects. ; Methods ; We used MarketScan databases to follow injured and propensity score matched non-injured workers, both without prior opioid-related diagnoses. Using a Cox proportional hazard model, we examined the impact of workplace injury on opioid-related morbidity. ; Results ; The hazard of opioid-related morbidity for injured workers was 1.79 times than that of matched non-injured workers (95% CI 1.89 to 3.60). For medical-only and lost-time injured workers, it was respectively 1.54 (95% CI 1.02 to 2.32) and 2.91 (95% CI 1.75 to 4.84) times that of non-injured workers. ; Conclusions ; Reducing workplace injury or severity of workplace injury, as well as efforts to ensure appropriate opioid prescribing for injured workers, may help to reduce the societal costs of opioid use.
• Subjects:
  • Article
  • Adult
  • Drug Overdose
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Illicit Drugs
  • Insurance, Health
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Occupational Injuries
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• Source:
  Occup Environ Med. 77(9):648-653
• Pubmed ID:
  32332060
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8011586
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R01 OH011511/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  77
• Issue:
  9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/104635/cdc_104635_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 504.08 KB]
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  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4c27768b692289abea624b247c77b46bc8b39c5f361cb1cf9c0e86ba29530f90