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Abuse of prescription drugs and the risk of addiction

Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2006
Abuse of several categories of prescription drugs has increased markedly in the United States in the past decade and is now at alarming levels for certain agents, especially opioid analgesics and stimulants. Prescription drugs of abuse fit into the same pharmacological classes as their non-prescription counterparts.
Nora D. Volkow, Wilson M. Compton
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Insight Into the Epidemic

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2010
The emergence of clinically efficacious prescription drugs to treat pain, anxiety, and learning disorders is accompanied by the potential for nonmedical use. Prescription drug abuse has become a modern-day epidemic in the United States and is now second only to marijuana use across all age groups.
S H Hernandez, Lewis S. Nelson
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Prescription Drug Abuse in Adolescence

2016
Nonmedical use of prescription drugs can pose a variety of serious public health threats. Rapid increases in the use of prescription drugs were observed at the turn of the 21st century and prompted new research and several actions by communities and policymakers. Adolescents and young adults are at heightened risk for this type of substance use.
Amelia M. Arria, Brittany A. Bugbee
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Interactions of Drugs of Abuse with Prescription Drugs [PDF]

, 1985
Over the last several decades, there has been an explosive rate of growth in the development of therapeutic drugs. These newly discovered drugs have helped significantly in reducing the threat of many diseases, in markedly improving the well-being of mankind, and in greatly prolonging life.
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Prescription Drug Abuse Information in D.A.R.E.

Journal of Drug Education, 2006
This investigation was designed to examine prescription drug-related content and learning objectives in Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) for upper elementary and middle schools. Specific prescription-drug topics and context associated with content and objectives were coded. The coding system for topics included 126 topics organized within 14
Melissa C. Morris, Rebecca J. Welch Cline, Robert M. Weiler, S. Camille Broadway   +3 more
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Prescription Drug Abuse

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2014
Thomas G. Tape, Neil Kirschner
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Abuse/misuse of non-prescription drugs.

Pharmacy world & science : PWS, 1999
To investigate the abuse of non-prescription (over-the-counter; OTC) products in Northern Ireland.A structured questionnaire covering various aspects of OTC drug abuse was mailed to all 509 community pharmacies in Northern Ireland.253 responses were received (response rate 49.7%) after two mailings.
Carmel Hughes, P. McKenna, G.F. Hughes, James McElnay   +3 more
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Prescription Drug Abuse: An Epidemic Dilemma

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2010
The nonmedical use of prescribed controlled substances has become a major public health problem. This article reviews the extent of prescription drug abuse reflected in drug overdose deaths, youth drug use and drug-impaired driving. Efforts to reduce illegal, nonmedical use of prescribed controlled drugs must be balanced so as not to interfere with ...
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Mitigating the prescription drug abuse epidemic

Journal of Healthcare Risk Management, 2017
Focused attention on the prescription drug abuse epidemic needs to include evidence‐based training for clinicians who manage patients with pain to facilitate accurate screening with consideration of comorbid conditions, diagnosis, selection of the appropriate treatment regimen, and focused monitoring of adherence to the established course of therapy ...
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Fifteen Solutions to the Problems of Prescription Drug Abuse

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1991
In the 17 years since the publication of Pills, Profits, and Politics by Silverman and Lee, not one of that book's proposals has been fully implemented. This article begins by identifying the elements of prescription drug abuse: inappropriate physician prescribing, patient noncompliance, and poor doctor-patient communication.
Peter Lurie, Philip R. Lee
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