Perry et al., "New means, new measures: assessing prescription drug-seeking indicators over 10 years of the opioid epidemic" (2022)

2022-01 → 2026-08-14

Brea L. Perry, Meltem Odabaş, Kai-Cheng Yang, Byungkyu Lee, Patrick Kaminski, Brian Aronson, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Carrie B. Oser, Patricia R. Freeman, and Jeffrey C. Talbert, Addiction 117(1), 195–204 (2022)
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@article{perry2022new,
    author = {Brea L. Perry and Meltem Odabaş and Kai-Cheng Yang and Byungkyu Lee and Patrick Kaminski and Brian Aronson and Yong-Yeol Ahn and Carrie B. Oser and Patricia R. Freeman and Jeffrey C. Talbert},
    title = {New means, new measures: assessing prescription drug-seeking indicators over 10 years of the opioid epidemic},
    journal = {Addiction},
    volume = {117},
    number = {1},
    pages = {195--204},
    doi = {10.1111/add.15635},
    year = {2022},
}

Compares traditional and network-based indicators of prescription drug-seeking using US claims from 2009–2018. Traditional binary indicators became less predictive over time, while continuous measures and PageRank-based measures retained more predictive value.

Opioid epidemic, Drug seeking behavior, Network centrality

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