A 1980 Letter on the Risk of Opioid Addiction — NEJM
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We identified 608 citations of the index publication and noted a sizable increase after the introduction of OxyContin (a long-acting formulation of oxycodone) in 1995 (Figure 1FIGURE 1
Number and Type of Citations of the 1980 Letter, According to Year.). Of the articles that included a reference to the 1980 letter, the authors of 439 (72.2%) cited it as evidence that addiction was rare in patients treated with opioids. Of the 608 articles, the authors of 491 articles (80.8%) did not note that the patients who were described in the letter were hospitalized at the time they received the prescription, whereas some authors grossly misrepresented the conclusions of the letter
On a donc les noms de 608 auteurs (et plus) qui ont participé par la #désinformation médicale à la prolifération des #opiacés qui aboutit à la #crise_sanitaire actuelle.
#recherche #bibliométrie #médecine #drogues #États-Unis #pharma
