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@ravensspirit68 @funchefchick @NitaGhei @StefanKertesz @AllysonVarley @PainPtFightBack @LelenaPeacock @tal7291 @urbanfatbiker I'm working on a big annotated bibliography of #cpp/rx #opioid research that I'll put online for activists to use. Here are studies I've got on #CPP-associated #suicide. Send me titles & authors for papers I'm missing & I'll add them. I'll link them below.
Tang et al 2006 review: Risk of death by #suicide at least doubled in #ChronicPain patients. Ideation is 3 times more common; lifetime prevalence of about 20%. 8 risks for suicidality in chronic pain were identified, half are physical.
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Tang et al: 8 risks for #suicide in #ChronicPain patients: 4 are physical, including type, intensity & duration of pain & sleep-onset insomnia co-occuring with #pain; 4 are psychological. CP is a neurological suicide risk AND a psychological risk.
1. Screening + Drug Treatment = Increase in #Veteran #Suicides. Report co-published @Mad_In_America w/Robert Whitaker. Model of care causing suicide epidemic #vha madinamerica.com/2019/11/screen… @TaskandPurpose @MilitaryTimes @NBCNews @HouseVetAffairs @VetAffairsDems @VAChair @SVACDems
@Mad_In_America @TaskandPurpose @MilitaryTimes @NBCNews @HouseVetAffairs @VetAffairsDems @VAChair @SVACDems 2. Suicide rates for 18-34 year-old #veterans using #VHA for care have INCREASED BY 144% over 12 year period. #veteransuicides #veteransday @VFWHQ @AmericanLegion @AmericanMD @NBCNightlyNews @VickyNguyenTV @studentvets @iava @MinorityVets @AMVETSHQ @zachiscol @PaulSzoldra 
@Mad_In_America @TaskandPurpose @MilitaryTimes @NBCNews @HouseVetAffairs @VetAffairsDems @VAChair @SVACDems @VFWHQ @AmericanLegion @AmericanMD @NBCNightlyNews @VickyNguyenTV @studentvets @iava @MinorityVets @AMVETSHQ @zachiscol @PaulSzoldra 3. Age adjusted #suicide rates for #VHA using vets nearly 20% higher than for non-VHA using vets. Crude suicide rates 32% higher @Hassan7Anthony @PaulRieckhoff
