Children And The Opioid Epidemic: Age-Stratified Exposures And Harms

Using North Carolina Medicaid 2016-18 claims data, we found that approximately one in ten adolescents (10.8 percent) filled at least one opioid prescription per year. Dentists, advanced practice providers, and surgeons were common prescribers of opioids to children. In addition, half of children who...

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Published inHealth affairs (Millwood, Va.) Vol. 39; no. 10; pp. 1737 - 1742F
Main Authors Brown, Kelby W, Carlisle, Kayla, Raman, Sudha R, Shrader, Peter, Jiao, Megan, Smith, Michael J, Einhorn, Lisa M, Wong, Charlene A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States The People to People Health Foundation, Inc., Project HOPE 01.10.2020
Subjects
Adolescent
Adolescents
Age
Analgesics, Opioid - adverse effects
Child
Children
Children & youth
Chronic illnesses
Critical incidents
Cross-sectional studies
Dentistry
Dentists
Drug overdose
Drug Prescriptions
Enrollments
Humans
Medicaid
Narcotics
North Carolina - epidemiology
Opioid Epidemic
Opioids
Pediatrics
Pharmacy
Practice Patterns, Physicians
Prescription drugs
Prescriptions
Sociodemographics
Surgeons
Teenagers
United States
North Carolina
United States
United States > US
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Summary:Using North Carolina Medicaid 2016-18 claims data, we found that approximately one in ten adolescents (10.8 percent) filled at least one opioid prescription per year. Dentists, advanced practice providers, and surgeons were common prescribers of opioids to children. In addition, half of children who experienced opioid-related adverse events had filled opioid prescriptions in the prior six months.
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ISSN:0278-2715
2694-233X
2694-233X
1544-5208
DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00724