Strong opioids such as fentanyl, morphine and oxycodone were more frequently indicated for cancer, however, there is an increasing trend of use of these strong opioids to treat non-cancer medical conditions; For example, the non-cancer indications for morphine merely comprised 29% of any pain-related medical conditions in 2007, but this figure gradually increased to 60% in 2019.
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Trends of Dispensed Opioids in Catalonia, Spain, 2007-19: A Population-Based Cohort Study of Over 5 Million Individuals.
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