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March 14, 2026Scandinavian Journal of Public Health0 citationsOpen Access

Risk and cause of overdose death after exposure to dispensed opioid analgesics

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EAEllen J. AmundsenSSSvetlana SkurtveitIOIngvild Odsbu

Key Points

  • This research aims to assess the risk and causes of overdose deaths related to opioid analgesics.
  • Analyzed overdose death rates following exposure to opioid analgesics
  • Examined risk markers including sex, age, and strength of opioids
  • Evaluated preventive strategies for safer prescribing
  • Overdose death risk was low but higher than population norms for men under 50 and women under 40
  • Identified sex, age, and opioid strength as critical risk markers
  • Suggested combining risk markers for better preventive strategies

Abstract

The risk of overdose deaths following exposure to strong opioid analgesics was low but higher than population death rates for men under 50 and women under 40 years. Preventive strategies based on risk markers such as sex, age and opioid analgesic strengths, combined with other known risk markers, can help guide safer prescription of opioid analgesics and reduce overdose death.

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Amundsen et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69b4b9eb18185d8a3980215chttps://doi.org/10.1177/14034948261424666
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