Patients ages 13 to 24 who are given opioids for pain are more than twice as likely to become addicted if they have mental health disorder, according to a study by Laura Richardson, UW Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of General Pediatrics, and a team of investigators at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute and the UW. The study, “Mental Health Disorders and Long-term Opioid Use among Adolescents and Young Adults with Chronic Pain,” was published in the June 2012 Journal of Adolescent Health. Along with the new article, Richardson discusses how providers can help reduce risk of long-term opioid use in a video on YouTube.
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Adolescents & Young Adults with MH Disorders at Risk of Long-term Opioid Use
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