Opioid medication prescribing in Queensland, 1997‒2018: a population study

The need to treat chronic pain and the increasing number of patients requiring opioid therapy are among the factors that have led to prescription opioid-related harm. Several professional society guidelines aim to reduce the frequency of opioid-related problems by modifying prescriber behaviour.1, 2 We analysed Monitoring of Drugs of Dependence System (MODDS) data for adult Queensland residents (18 years or older) for whom opioids were dispensed...