A study using UK death data from the Office for National Statistics has shown an increasing trend in the number of deaths attributable to opioids from 2001 to 2011 [ 15 ].
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Prevalence and Incidence Trends for Diagnosed Prescription Opioid Use Disorders in the United Kingdom.
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In analyses stratified by opioid drug, we found that the relation between opioid use disorders and prescriptions of codeine and tramadol remained stable, whereas there was an increasing trend for morphine and a decreasing trend related to dihydrocodeine.