2017
Cigarette Smoking and Musculoskeletal Pain Severity Among Male and Female Afghanistan/Iraq Era Veterans
Green KT, Wilson SM, Dennis PA, Runnals JJ, Williams RA, Bastian LA, Beckham JC, Dedert EA, Kudler HS, Straits-Tröster K, Gierisch JM, Calhoun PS. Cigarette Smoking and Musculoskeletal Pain Severity Among Male and Female Afghanistan/Iraq Era Veterans. Pain Medicine 2017, 18: 1795-1804. PMID: 28340108, PMCID: PMC6051440, DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnw339.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSevere musculoskeletal painMusculoskeletal painCigarette smokingPain severityDepressive symptomsHealth care service utilizationEra veteransCigarette smoking statusMultivariate logistic regressionOperation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom veteransPost-traumatic stress disorder symptomsMusculoskeletal pain severityHealth care needsSelf-reported race/ethnicityGender-based risk factorsOperation Iraqi Freedom veteransCurrent pain severityIraqi Freedom veteransRace/ethnicityVeteran smokersCurrent smokingFemale nonsmokersSmoking statusCigarette smokersRisk factors
2016
Cigarette Smoking Status and Receipt of an Opioid Prescription Among Veterans of Recent Wars
Bastian LA, Driscoll MA, Heapy AA, Becker WC, Goulet JL, Kerns RD, DeRycke EC, Perez E, Lynch SM, Mattocks K, Kroll-Desrosiers AR, Brandt CA, Skanderson M, Bathulapalli H, Haskell SG. Cigarette Smoking Status and Receipt of an Opioid Prescription Among Veterans of Recent Wars. Pain Medicine 2016, 18: 1089-1097. PMID: 27659441, DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnw223.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCurrent pain intensityOpioid prescriptionsPain intensitySmoking statusOEF/OIF/OND veteransCurrent smokersFormer smokersOpioid useVeterans Health Administration primary care clinicsOperations Enduring Freedom/Iraqi Freedom/New DawnMild pain intensityMore opioid prescriptionsSevere pain intensityNumeric rating scalePrimary care clinicsCigarette smoking statusCross-sectional analysisOpioid receiptFormer smokingCohort studyCurrent smokingCare clinicsChronic painCigarette smokersSmoking cessation