Authors’ Reply to Langford et al.: “Patient Perceptions of Opioids and Benzodiazepines and Attitudes Toward Deprescribing”

Patients' lack of knowledge regarding their own usage of opioids, benzodiazepines, and other high-risk medications, as observed in our study [2], is likely to be detrimental to their acceptance of deprescribing as it precludes an awareness of the potential dangers of their own medications. The...

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Published inDrugs & aging Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 79 - 80
Main Authors Kelley, Casey J., Niznik, Joshua, Busby-Whitehead, Jan, Ferreri, Stefanie P., Armistead, Lori T., Hughes, Tamera D., Henage, Cristine B., Schlusser, Courtney, Roberts, Ellen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 2024
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Aging
Analgesics
Attitudes
Benzodiazepines
Clinical medicine
Conflicts of interest
Consent
Disease control
Disease prevention
Geriatrics/Gerontology
Internal Medicine
Letter to the Editor
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Narcotics
Pharmacology/Toxicology
Pharmacotherapy
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Summary:Patients' lack of knowledge regarding their own usage of opioids, benzodiazepines, and other high-risk medications, as observed in our study [2], is likely to be detrimental to their acceptance of deprescribing as it precludes an awareness of the potential dangers of their own medications. The funders were not involved in the design of the study, collection, analysis, interpretation of the data, or in the writing of the manuscript. Ethics approval This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (IRB # 18-2920).
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ISSN:1170-229X
1179-1969
DOI:10.1007/s40266-023-01087-5