Diabetes mellitus (DM) has well-known costly complications but we hypothesized that costs of care for chronic pain treated with opioid analgesics (OA) would also be substantial. In a statewide, privately insured cohort of 29,033 adults aged 18-64 with DM and non-cancer pain who filled OA prescription(s) from 2008 -2012, our outcomes were costs for specific health care services and total costs per 6-month interval after first filled OA prescription. Average daily OA dose (4 categories) and total dose (quartiles) in morphine equivalent mgs were calculated per 6-month interval after first OA prescription and combined into a novel OA dose measure.
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