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Specificity in genetic and environmental risk for prescription opioid misuse and heroin use.
Psychological medicine - 1 Oct 2023
Dash Genevieve F, Gizer Ian R, Martin Nicholas G, Slutske Wendy S
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BACKGROUND: Many studies aggregate prescription opioid misuse (POM) and heroin use into a single phenotype, but emerging evidence suggests that their genetic and environmental influences may be partially distinct. METHODS: In total, 7164 individual twins (84.12% complete pairs; 59.81% female; mean age = 30.58 years) from the Australian Twin Registry reported their lifetime misuse of prescription opioids,...
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