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Risk Factors Associated With Opioid Misuse Among Military Personnel, Brittany Sullivan, Mark Bonica, Chris Armijo, Anne Jamieson, Semra Aytur
Risk Factors Associated With Opioid Misuse Among Military Personnel, Brittany Sullivan, Mark Bonica, Chris Armijo, Anne Jamieson, Semra Aytur
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Risk Factors Associated with Opioid Misuse Among Military Personnel
Opioid overdoses are increasing among military personnel. Opioids are a class of drugs that include heroin, synthetic opioids, and pain relievers. Almost half of all Veterans returning from deployment in Afghanistan and Iraq have chronic pain; one in six veterans turn to opioids for pain relief.
Veterans between the ages of eighteen and fifty-three are five times as likely to have a Substance Use Disorder and two times as likely to have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in contrast to the general public.
Risk factors that have been shown to increase the probability …