ArticleGeneral hospital psychiatry
Opioid-related emergency admissions in people with opioid dependence/use disorder with and without sickle cell disease: An analysis of multi-state insurance claims.
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- Opioid Dispensing Volume and Per-Patient Intensity in Sickle Cell Disease.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Negative Descriptors of Patients With Sickle Cell Disease in the Electronic Health Record.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Ten-year trends in opioid prescribing and vaso-occlusive crises in sickle cell disease: a population-based national cohort study (2011-2022).Lancet regional health. Americas · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectiveWe estimated rates of opioid-related admissions in people with sickle cell disease (SCD) diagnosed with opioid-related disorders.
methodWe analyzed ten years (1/2006-12/2016) of multi-state claims data from 191,638 people receiving treatment for opioid-related disorders in the U.S. We used multivariable cox regression to estimate the association between admissions for opioid-related adverse events after initiating treatment and SCD status (SCD[n = 320] vs no SCD[n = 191,318]) among people with opioid-related disorders, controlling for sociodemographic variables and comorbidities. In secondary analyses, we excluded events occurring simultaneously as vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs) and computed rates of admissions for non-opioid substance-related events (i.e., alcohol, cannabis).
resultsWhereas 287(90 %) of the SCD cohort had >1 all-cause admission, of which 199 were for VOCs, only 78(20 %) experienced an opioid-related adverse event. The SCD cohort experienced higher rates of opioid-related admissions than the non-SCD cohort (aHR = 1.82[95 % CI = 1.51-2.19), a finding that remained robust even after excluding events that occurred at the same time as a VOC. SCD diagnoses were not associated with admissions for non-opioid substance-related events.
conclusionsEven though clinicians may perceive people with SCD as being at elevated risk for substance use disorders, opioid-related admissions made up only a small fraction of all-cause admissions among people with SCD diagnosed with opioid-related disorders, in contrast to VOCs that comprised the majority of admissions. Opioid-related admissions, while modestly higher among those with SCD than among peers without SCD, were relatively uncommon.
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