Discontinuation and tapering of prescribed opioids and risk of overdose among people on long-term opioid therapy for pain with and without opioid use disorder in British Columbia, Canada: A retrospective cohort study

• Mary Clare Kennedy ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bccsu-mck@bccsu.ubc.ca

  Affiliations British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, School of Social Work, University of British Columbia–Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1186-2151

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• Alexis Crabtree,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1876-4354

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• Seonaid Nolan,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Wing Yin Mok,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Zishan Cui,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9236-3890

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• Mei Chong,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Amanda Slaunwhite,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Lianping Ti

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2470-438X

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