Purpose This review sought to (a) describe definitions of long‐term opioid therapy (LTOT)
outcome measures, and (b) identify the predictors associated with the transition from short‐…

Background: Long-term opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain is becoming increasingly
common in community practice. Concomitant with this change in practice, rates of fatal …

Most research methodology in the behavioral sciences employs interindividual analyses,
which provide information about the state of affairs of the population. However, as shown by …

Objective To report trends and characteristics of long‐term opioid use for non‐cancer pain.
Methods CONSORT (CONsortium to Study Opioid Risks and Trends) includes adult enrollees …

We evaluate the performance of alternative test statistics in event studies which include
NASDAQ daily security returns. We document varying degrees of test statistic misspecification in …

Objectives. We describe age and gender trends in long-term use of prescribed opioids for
chronic noncancer pain in 2 large health plans. Methods. Age- and gender-standardized …

We provide the first simulation evidence of event-study test performance in multi-country non-US
samples. The nonparametric rank and generalized sign tests are more powerful than …

Two experiments examined the degree to which socially anxious people's interpersonal
concerns reflect doubts about their personal self-presentational efficacy versus a generalized …

We extend prior research on the empirical properties of daily trading volume and methods
to detect abnormal trading volume in two ways. We compare the performance of a …

PURPOSE Opioid misuse in the context of chronic opioid therapy (COT) is a growing concern.
Depression may be a risk factor for opioid misuse, but it has been difficult to tease out the …