Changes in prescription drug abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic evidenced in the Catalan pharmacies [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionThe impact of a pandemic on the mental health of the population is to be expected due to risk factors such as social isolation. Prescription drug abuse and misuse could be an indicator of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health ...
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Early Detection of Prescription Drug Abuse Using Doctor Shopping Monitoring From Claims Databases: Illustration From the Experience of the French Addictovigilance Network [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Opioid analgesics and maintenance treatments, benzodiazepines and z-drugs, and other sedatives and stimulants are increasingly being abused to induce psychoactive effects or alter the effects of other drugs, eventually leading to dependence. Awareness of
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Recognition and stigma of prescription drug abuse disorder: personal and community determinants [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Prescription drug abuse (PDA) disorders continue to contribute to the current American opioid crisis. Within this context, our study seeks to improve understanding about stigma associated with, and symptom recognition of, prescription drug ...
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Utilization of the Arkansas Prescription Monitoring Program to combat prescription drug abuse [PDF]
Preventive Medicine Reports, 2015 Objective: The Arkansas Prescription Monitoring Program (AR PMP) was implemented in 2013 to combat prescription drug abuse. All enrollees were invited to participate in a user survey available in February 2014, to identify makeup of users, utilization of
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An Exploration of Social Circles and Prescription Drug Abuse Through Twitter
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2013 BackgroundPrescription drug abuse has become a major public health problem. Relationships and social context are important contributing factors. Social media provides online channels for people to build relationships that may influence attitudes and ...
Hanson, Carl Lee +3 more
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Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Opioid Prescriptions at Emergency Department Visits for Conditions Commonly Associated with Prescription Drug Abuse. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Prescription drug abuse is a growing problem nationally. In an effort to curb this problem, emergency physicians might rely on subjective cues such as race-ethnicity, often unknowingly, when prescribing opioids for pain-related complaints, especially for
Astha Singhal, Yu-Yu Tien, Renee Y Hsia
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Provider–Patient Communication about Prescription Drug Abuse: A Qualitative Analysis of the Perspective of Prescribers [PDF]
Substance Abuse, 2020 Stephanie M Mathis +2 more
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Prescription drug abuse: from epidemiology to public policy [PDF]
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 2015 R Kathryn Mchugh +2 more
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Patterns of adolescent tobacco and alcohol use as predictors of illicit and prescription drug abuse in minority young adults [PDF]
Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, 2019 Kenneth W Griffin +2 more
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JAMA Internal Medicine, 2015 Prescription drug abuse (PDA) has been a rapidly growing problem in the United States, causing mortality rates even greater than those of heroin and cocaine combined. Second to marijuana as the most commonly used illicit drugs, approximately 20% of Americans have engaged in the nonmedical use of prescription drugs, mainly as a result of easy access of ...
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