It's not really a well designed study and it's one that hasn't replicated well.
But people still love bringing it up, especially here on HN where people seem to think they know better than the experts on everything to do with medicine.
But people still love bringing it up, especially here on HN where people seem to think they know better than the experts on everything to do with medicine.
http://sci-hub.io/10.2466/pr0.1996.78.2.391
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2616610
But there are other studies linked that seem to confirm it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3696469
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18463628
Not sure where that leaves us.
But there are very different patterns of prescribing of opioids across the US and eg UK.
Why is this?