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Open AccessKilling pain?: a population-based registry study of the use of prescription analgesics, anxiolytics, and hypnotics among all children, adolescents and young adults in Norway from 2004 to 2019
The ongoing opioid epidemic has been a global concern for years, increasingly due to its heavy toll on young people’s lives and prospects. Few studies have investigated trends in use of the wider range of drug...
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Open AccessCan academic detailing reduce opioid prescriptions in chronic non-cancer pain?
One measure to support optimal opioid prescription is academic detailing (AD) with one-to-one visits by trained professionals (academic detailers) to general practitioners (GPs).
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Open AccessAssociation Between Prescribed Hypnotics in Infants and Toddlers and Later ADHD: A Large Cohort Study from Norway
As previously indicated an association may exist between early sleep problems in infants and toddlers, and a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The aim of this study was to study if ...
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Incidence of diagnosed pediatric anxiety disorders and use of prescription drugs: a nation-wide registry study
The aim of this study was to calculate time trends in incidence of diagnosed anxiety disorders, including obsessive–compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder, and to examine changes in use of pre...
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Open AccessHypnotics use in children 0–18 months: moderate agreement between mother-reported survey data and prescription registry data
Different methods in pharmacoepidemiology can be used to study hypnotic use in children. But neither questionnaire-based data nor prescription records can be considered a “gold standard”. This study aimed to i...
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Open AccessBenzodiazepine prescription for patients in treatment for drug use disorders: a nationwide cohort study in Denmark, 2000–2010
Benzodiazepines are frequently prescribed to patients with drug use disorders. However, it has previously been difficult to distinguish whether this frequent prescribing was due to underlying psychiatric disor...
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Open AccessPsychotropic drug use among 0–17 year olds during 2004–2014: a nationwide prescription database study
Time-trend studies on psychotropic drugs among children and adolescents are scarce, and most of them are outdated. The purpose of this study was to study prevalences of psychotropic drug use during 2004–2014 a...
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Prenatal exposure to anxiolytics and hypnotics and language competence at 3 years of age
The aim of the study was to examine if there was an association between use of anxiolytics and hypnotics in pregnancy and language competence in the offspring at age 3 years.
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Dispensing of benzodiazepines and benzodiazepine-related drugs to pregnant women: a population-based cohort study
The study aimed to describe the dispensing of benzodiazepines and benzodiazepine-related drugs (z-hypnotics) to pregnant women and to study the characteristics of these women and the extent of co-medication.
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Use of prescribed opioid analgesics and co-medication with benzodiazepines in women before, during, and after pregnancy: a population-based cohort study
The aim of the study was to describe the use of prescribed opioid analgesics for noncancer pain and the degree of possible concurrent co-medication with benzodiazepines to women in Norway before, during, and a...
