Compared with both 2006 and 2016, prescription opioid use peaked in 2011 and has declined rapidly since then, according to a study of 10 opioids.
But buprenorphine bucked the trend by being the only opioid that showed an increase during the 10-year study period.
“A prior publication examining use and misuse of opioids in Maine made it abundantly clear that there were substantial gaps in state prescription drug monitoring programs [PDMPs],” said lead study author Brian Piper, PhD, an