Opioid prescriptions among the World Trade Center Health Program population.

Among these members, there was an increasing trend of the proportion of members with any opioid prescription, from 1.5% in 2013 to 2.5% in 2017 ( p = 0.024), then it decreased to 1.5% in 2021 ( p = 0.003).

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A decreasing trend in opioid prescribing began in 2019 (pre-pandemic) and continued to 2021, and the reasons why the trend kept going down during the pandemic might involve the measures implemented in 2018 and/or pandemic impacts.

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