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Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics

One-paragraph 1980 letter to the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine on addiction among hospital patients.

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U.S. opioid overdose epidemic According to A 1980 Letter on the Risk of Opioid Addiction Scholarship & press 1
The 2017 analysis blames the way the letter was cited, not the letter, and says its authors "believe" the pattern "contributed". It does not claim to have proven a cause.

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A 1980 Letter on the Risk of Opioid Addiction, New England Journal of Medicine, 1 Jun 2017. Scholarship & press Archived copy
We believe that this citation pattern contributed to the North American opioid crisis by helping to shape a narrative that allayed prescribers’ concerns about the risk of addiction associated with long-term opioid therapy.
was widely invoked in support of this claim, even though no evidence was provided by the correspondents

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