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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.
Melissa C, Morris, Rebecca J Welch, Cline, Robert M, Weiler, S Camille, Broadway   +3 more
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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.
Wilson M, Compton, Nora D, Volkow
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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, L S, Nelson
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Prescription Drug Abuse

2019
The misuse and abuse of prescription drugs has reached epidemic proportions in recent years, yet many individuals still believe, incorrectly, that their use is without risk. This book explores those risks as well as controversies surrounding this public health issue.
Robert L. Bryant, Howard L. Forman
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Women and Drugs: The Heroin Abuser and the Prescription Drug Abuser

Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1984
The 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.
Sara E. Gutierres, Deanna S. Patton, Jonathan S. Raymond, Deborah L. Rhoads   +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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Abuse of Prescription Drugs

Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 1973
D W, Swanson, R L, Weddige, R M, Morse
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Abuse of drug prescriptions

British Dental Journal, 1998
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Interactions of Drugs of Abuse with Prescription Drugs

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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