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"Survivors" of the Opioid Crisis: Epidemiological Paradox and Negative Equality in Overdose Deaths Among Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Diseases, 1999–2020

2026-02-18

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> <bold>Background.</bold> The U.S. opioid crisis has shifted from prescription to illicit sources, yet the long-term mortality trajectory for patients with chronic musculoskeletal conditions (CMC)—the original target of prescribing controls—remains understudied. We aimed to reconstruct overdose mortality trends for CMC patients (1999–2020) and examine structural racial and geographic...

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Literature Corpus work: 8bd4e680-1f04-5236-ac90-4ca4c658298e
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8816036/v1

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