Response to Ruan et al. Letter to the Editor: Increased Risk of Depression Recurrence After Initiation of Prescription Opioids in Noncancer Pain Patients
1 Department of Family and Community Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; Research Service, Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital, Columbia, Missouri; Saint Louis University Center for Outcomes Research, St. Louis, Missouri. Electronic address: scherrjf@slu.edu.
2 Department of Family and Community Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; Research Service, Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital, Columbia, Missouri.
3 Center for Applied Health Research, Baylor Scott & White Health, and Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, Texas; Texas A&M Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas; UT Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
4 Center for Applied Health Research, Baylor Scott & White Health, and Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, Texas; Texas A&M Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas.
5 Department of Family and Community Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
6 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington.
7 Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
8 Saint Louis University Center for Outcomes Research, St. Louis, Missouri.
9 Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; The Bell Street Clinic, VA St. Louis Health Care System - John Cochran Division, St. Louis, Missouri.