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Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1986
Prescription drug abuse (PDA) accounts for much drug-related morbidity and mortality. The PDA issue contains several interrelated dimensions: regulatory, practical, and clinical. Historical and current governmental efforts to regulate prescribing practices are reviewed. The authors discuss the many ways that prescription drugs can be diverted for abuse
Kenneth J. Weiss, Daniel P. Greenfield
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Prescription drug abuse (PDA) accounts for much drug-related morbidity and mortality. The PDA issue contains several interrelated dimensions: regulatory, practical, and clinical. Historical and current governmental efforts to regulate prescribing practices are reviewed. The authors discuss the many ways that prescription drugs can be diverted for abuse
Kenneth J. Weiss, Daniel P. Greenfield
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Psychology in the Schools, 2009 AbstractThis article presents current statistics on nonmedical use of both categories of prescription medications by high school and college students. The incidence of nonmedical use of prescription medications continues to increase among high school and college students.
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Women and Drugs: The Heroin Abuser and the Prescription Drug Abuser
Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1984The literature on female drug use/abuse was reviewed and descriptions of the female heroin abuser and the female prescription drug abuser were derived. The female heroin abuser has been characterized as a lower socioeconomic status woman with low self-esteem, the product of a disrupted, unstable childhood.
Deanna S. Patton +3 more
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Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1993
Misuse and abuse of prescription medication can be a difficult clinical area for physicians. Prior to prescribing any mood-altering medication, the physician should screen for patients at risk for abuse by asking about an individual or family history of alcohol or other drug abuse.
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Misuse and abuse of prescription medication can be a difficult clinical area for physicians. Prior to prescribing any mood-altering medication, the physician should screen for patients at risk for abuse by asking about an individual or family history of alcohol or other drug abuse.
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Neuropsychiatric Effects of Prescription Drug Abuse
Neuropsychology Review, 2007Prescription drugs have become a major category of abused substances, and there is evidence that the prevalence of prescription drug abuse may soon overtake that of illicit drugs. Study of prescription drugs has been hampered by vague terminology, since prescription drugs are only separated from other drugs of abuse by social and legal constructs ...
Lucy A. Epstein +4 more
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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 ...
Susan Dabu-Bondoc +2 more
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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 ...
Susan Dabu-Bondoc +2 more
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The Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic
Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 2012In the United States, the nonmedical use of prescription drugs is the second most common illicit drug use, behind only marijuana. This article discusses the abuse issues with three of the most widely abused prescription drugs: opioids, central nervous system (CNS) depressants (eg, benzodiazepines), and stimulants (eg, amphetamine-dextroamphetamine and ...
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Prescription Drug Abuse in the Elderly
The Consultant Pharmacist, 2008The increased use of prescription drugs has brought pain relief too many and often improved the quality of life of elderly patients. But the increase in use and availability of prescription medications-especially controlled substances-brings with it an increased potential for abuse.
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Medical Clinics of North America, 1997
The current American medical practice paradox of concomitant overprescribing and underprescribing of controlled drugs is within the power of physicians to correct. It requires actively seeking education in traditionally neglected areas and avoiding prescribing controlled drugs to patients with either substance abuse histories or vague clinical ...
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The current American medical practice paradox of concomitant overprescribing and underprescribing of controlled drugs is within the power of physicians to correct. It requires actively seeking education in traditionally neglected areas and avoiding prescribing controlled drugs to patients with either substance abuse histories or vague clinical ...
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