For decades the use of opioids both prescribed and otherwise has been the focus of
intense scrutiny in the system of public health as well as criminal justice. Opioid
related deaths have been climbing
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with over 100,000 opioid related deaths in the United States in 2021. It is uncertain
how many were intentional and how many accidental. Because prescribed opioids acutely
dim one's awareness of pain it is reasonable to question their longer-term effects
on cognitive risk. However existing studies offer conflicting results with only heavy
chronic opioid use predictive.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Publication history
Published online: June 03, 2022
Accepted:
May 31,
2022
Received:
May 28,
2022
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