News-Medical.Net February 22, 2025
The combination of prescribed central nervous system stimulants, such as drugs that relieve ADHD symptoms, with prescribed opioid medications is associated with a pattern of escalating opioid intake, a new study has found.
The analysis of health insurance claims data from almost 3 million U.S. patients investigated prescribed stimulants’ impact on prescription opioid use over 10 years, looking for origins of the so-called “twin epidemic” of combining the two classes of drugs, which can increase the risk for overdose deaths.
Combining the two drugs is associated with an increase in overdose deaths. This is something we know. But we didn’t know whether stimulant use has a causal role in high use of opioids, so we conducted a big data...
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