Study finds smoking opioids is associated with lower mortality than injecting but is still high-risk

A new study published in Addiction has found that opioid smoking appears to be associated with lower mortality risk compared with opioid injecting. The authors, however, caution that opioid smoking still carries a substantial overdose risk and that these results should not be interpreted as suggesting that opioid smoking is safe.

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