Health Related Quality of Life of Urban Young Adults Misusing Analgesics Participating in a Controlled, Cross-sectional Study in East Sikkim, North East India [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2018 Introduction: A great deal of interest exists in assessing the health related Quality of Life (QoL) as an important aspect of treatment effectiveness with prescription drug misuse.
Deepanjana Dass, Sunil Kumar Pandey
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Training Indiana's Family Medicine Residents to Address the Problem of Prescription Drug Abuse [PDF]
, 2013 Prescription drug abuse has been a growing problem in Indiana and around the nation for almost two decades. In recent years, prescription drug overdoses have pushed drug poisonings ahead of motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of injury death ...
Fielding, Stephen M.
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: Examining Limitations and Future Approaches
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2015 Prescription drug abuse is a leading cause of accidental death in the United States. Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) are a popular initiative among policy makers and a key tool to combat the prescription drug epidemic.
Griggs, Christopher A. +2 more
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Prescription History of Emergency Department Patients Prescribed Opioids
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2013 Introduction: To use Colorado’s prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) to describe the recent opioid prescription history of patients discharged from our emergency department (ED) with a prescription for opioid pain medications.Methods ...
Jason A Hoppe +3 more
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Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse Through State Policy: The Role of Nursing in Successful Implementation [PDF]
, 2015 Prescription drug abuse has become a top public health concern in the United States in recent years. Changes in prescribing practices and the way in which health providers manage pain resulted from national quality improvement efforts in the 1990s.
Biviji-Sharma, Rizwana +5 more
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Prescription Drug Abuse among Ecstasy Users in Miami [PDF]
, 2006 This study examines the nature, extent and consequences of prescription drug abuse among 143 ecstasy users in Miami. Participants were recruited through nightclub and college campus outreach, and through respondent referrals. Instrumentation included the
Cottler, Linda +3 more
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Prescription Drug Abuse in Canada and the Diversion of Prescription Drugs into the Illicit Drug Market [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2005 Prescription drug abuse has received considerable attention in media reports in recent years. The purpose of this article is to describe the Canadian situation and context with regards to prescription drug abuse and the diversion of psychotropic prescription drugs into the illicit drug market, with a focus on the need for more data and interventions ...
Benedikt Fischer +8 more
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Abuse risks and routes of administration of different prescription opioid compounds and formulations
Harm Reduction Journal, 2011 Background Evaluation of tamper resistant formulations (TRFs) and classwide Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) for prescription opioid analgesics will require baseline descriptions of abuse patterns of existing opioid analgesics, including ...
Dailey Taryn M +4 more
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Abuse and Diversion of Immediate Release Opioid Analgesics as Compared to Extended Release Formulations in the United States. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Therapeutic use and abuse of prescription opioids in the United States increased substantially between 1990 and 2010. The Centers for Disease Control estimated deaths related to pharmaceutical opioids reached nearly 19,000 in 2014.
Janetta L Iwanicki +9 more
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, 2023 Background. In the United States, the leading cause of injury death is from prescription drug overdose. The most commonly abused prescription medications are (a) pain relievers (opioids), (b) CNS depressants (tranquilizers, sedatives, hypnotics), and (c)
Barlow, Matthew +3 more
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