Prevalence of long-term opioid therapy in spine center outpatients the spinal pain opioid cohort (SPOC).

Purpose: No reference material exists on the scope of long-term problems in novel spinal pain opioid users. In this study, we evaluate the prevalence and long-term use of prescribed opioids in patients of the Spinal Pain Opioid Cohort.

Methods: The setting was an outpatient healthcare entity (Spine Center).