NIOSH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Washignton, District of Columbia, USA
Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Occup Environ Med. 2020 Sep;77(9):648-653. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2020-106535. Epub 2020 Apr 24.
To examine the impact of workplace injury on opioid dependence, abuse and overdose (opioid-related morbidity) and if severity of injury increases the hazard of these health effects.
We used MarketScan databases to follow injured and propensity score matched non-injured workers, both without prior opioid-related diagnoses. Using a Cox proportional hazard model, we examined the impact of workplace injury on opioid-related morbidity.
The hazard of opioid-related morbidity for injured workers was 1.79 times than that of matched non-injured workers (95% CI 1.89 to 3.60). For medical-only and lost-time injured workers, it was respectively 1.54 (95% CI 1.02 to 2.32) and 2.91 (95% CI 1.75 to 4.84) times that of non-injured workers.
Reducing workplace injury or severity of workplace injury, as well as efforts to ensure appropriate opioid prescribing for injured workers, may help to reduce the societal costs of opioid use.
探讨工作场所损伤对阿片类药物依赖、滥用和过量用药(阿片类相关发病率)的影响,以及损伤严重程度是否会增加这些健康影响的风险。
我们使用 MarketScan 数据库对受伤和倾向评分匹配的未受伤工人进行随访,这些工人均无先前的阿片类相关诊断。我们使用 Cox 比例风险模型,研究工作场所损伤对阿片类相关发病率的影响。
受伤工人发生阿片类相关发病率的风险是匹配未受伤工人的 1.79 倍(95%CI 1.89 至 3.60)。对于仅医疗性损伤和导致失时的损伤工人,其风险分别为未受伤工人的 1.54 倍(95%CI 1.02 至 2.32)和 2.91 倍(95%CI 1.75 至 4.84)。
减少工作场所损伤或损伤严重程度,以及努力确保为受伤工人开具适当的阿片类药物处方,可能有助于降低阿片类药物使用带来的社会成本。