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Prescription drug diversion, misuse, and abuse among people living with HIV: a scoping review protocol

Systematic Reviews, 2020
Background Prescription drugs are controlled medicines due to their potential risks of being diverted, misused, and abused. Since the introduction of antiretroviral (ARVs) drugs, HIV is currently regarded as a chronic condition.
Buyisile Chibi, Neusa Fernanda Torres, Tivani P. Mashamba-Thompson   +2 more
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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., Weiner, Scott G., Feldman, James A.   +2 more
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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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Preventing prescription drug abuse

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, 2000
Prescription drug abuse is a problem with potentially grave consequences for patients and their families. Primary care physicians can play a major role in curbing prescription drug abuse by learning to recognize drug-seeking behavior and other warning signs, by educating patients about their drug regimens, and by setting firm but reasonable prescribing
W. S. WILKE, J. H. ISAACSON
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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, John Houghland, Michael Yaron, Kennon Heard   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sex differences in pregabalin-seeking like behavior in a conditioned place preference paradigm

Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal, 2020
Substance abuse is a chronic, relapsing disorder characterized by compulsive drug use regardless of negative consequences. Incremental increases in pregabalin abuse have been observed in Saudi Arabia and throughout the world.
Hashem O. Alsaab, Ebtehal Altowairqi, Nada Alzahrani, Reem Alzahrani, Fahad S. Alshehri, Atiah H. Almalki, Walaa F. Alsanie, Ahmed Gaber, Turki Alkhalifa, Ahmad Almalki, Zahoor A. Shah, Yusuf S. Althobaiti   +11 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, Cassidy Theresa A, Black Ryan A, Butler Stephen F, Budman Simon H   +4 more
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Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman, Neehar Parikh, Dan J. Clauw, David A. Williams, Elliot B. Tapper   +4 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian, Marina Serper, Norah Terrault, Lauren D. Nephew   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development and validation of an Opioid Attractiveness Scale: a novel measure of the attractiveness of opioid products to potential abusers

Harm Reduction Journal, 2006
Background The growing trends in opioid abuse, assessment of the abuse liability of prescription opioid products, and growing efforts by the pharmaceutical industry to develop 'abuse-resistant' formulations highlight a need to understand the features ...
Fernandez Kathrine C, Budman Simon H, Benoit Christine, Butler Stephen F, McCormick Cynthia, Venuti Synne, Katz Nathaniel   +6 more
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