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In their comparison of our research on opioid-related mortality1 with previous research on the safety of NSAIDs2, Lynch and Fischer imply that opioids are safer than NSAIDs.3
We have shown that the opioid-related mortality rate among public drug plan beneficiaries who are prescribed opioids for non-cancer pain is 1.86 per 1000 (95% CI 1.64 - 2.10 per 1000) within two years and 7.92 per 1000 among the small pr...
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