An unexpected finding of this study was the highly significant association between nonprescribed buprenorphine/naloxone use and increased overdose risk, countering recent suggestions that nonprescribed use may confer public health benefits when treatment is inaccessible ( Carlson et al., 2020 ; Chilcoat et al., 2019 ).
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Predictors of opioid overdose during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of relapse, treatment access and nonprescribed buprenorphine/naloxone.
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