Mortality among individuals prescribed opioid-agonist therapy in Scotland, UK, 2011-20: a national retrospective cohort study
Andrew McAuley, Rosalyn Fraser, Megan Glancy, Alan Yeung, Hayley Jones, Peter Vickerman, Hannah Fraser, Lara Allen, Scott McDonald, Jack Stone, David Liddell, Lee Barnsdale, Sakey Priyadarshi, Andreas Markoulidakis, Matthew Hickman, Sharon Hutchinson
Drug-related death rates in Scotland have increased rapidly to one of the highest in the world. Our aim was to examine the extent to which opioid-agonist therapy (OAT) in Scotland is protective against drug-related mortality and how this effect has varied over time.