Trends for opioid prescribing and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases between 2006-2021
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CONCLUSION: The plateauing/decreasing trend of opioid users for RMDs after 2018 may reflect the efforts to tackle the rising opioid prescribing in the UK. The pandemic led to fewer people on opioids for most RMDs, reassuring there was no sudden
