📣 Check out our latest paper “Prescription opioid use and opioid use disorder among older adults with HIV in the USA from 2008 to 2021: a retrospective repeated cross-sectional study” published in The Lancet Primary Care!
🔎 What we did: We used data from a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older to compare trends of opioid prescriptions and indicators of opioid used disorders between older adults with and without HIV. This study was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (K01DA053157).
💡 Key findings: Older adults with HIV enrolled in Medicare were significantly more likely to receive opioid prescriptions and to have indicators of opioid use disorder compared with their peers without HIV. They were also more likely to receive high-risk prescriptions such as higher doses, overlapping prescriptions, and prescriptions for a longer duration.