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Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics
- ... that a 1980 letter to the editor in The New England Journal of Medicine has frequently been cited to argue that opioids carry a low risk of addiction? Source: "The analysis found 608 citations of the initial letter as of May 30, 72% of them pointing to it as proof that addiction was rare among long-term narcotic users." [1]
- ALT1: * ... that Hershel Jick, the author of a frequently-cited 1980 letter to the editor in The New England Journal of Medicine, has said that the letter has been misrepresented? Source: "When we reached recently retired Dr. Hershel Jick, author of the oft-quoted "1% letter," he was quick to point out that his statistic was misrepresented. It was intended to represent only patients prescribed opioids in the hospital who were carefully monitored. He told us he never anticipated the remarkable impact a one-paragraph letter would have in the decades to follow. [2] "
- Reviewed: St. Cajetan Church
Created by Everymorning (talk). Self-nominated at 13:06, 25 June 2017 (UTC).
- Comment: The hook makes it sound like it is true that opiods carry a low risk of addiction. Don't you need more like
- ... that a 1980 letter to the editor has been cited more than 430 times to erroneously argue that opioids carry a low risk of addiction? 70.67.222.124 (talk) 22:45, 26 June 2017 (UTC)