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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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An inevitable wave of prescription drug monitoring programs in the context of prescription opioids: pros, cons and tensions [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: In an effort to control non-medical use and/or medical abuse of prescription drugs, particularly prescription opioids, electronic prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP) have been introduced in North-American countries, Australia and ...
Islam, M. Mofizul, McRae, Ian S.
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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
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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
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Social Media Mining for Toxicovigilance: Automatic Monitoring of Prescription Medication Abuse from Twitter [PDF]

, 2016
Introduction Prescription medication overdose is the fastest growing drug-related problem in the USA. The growing nature of this problem necessitates the implementation of improved monitoring strategies for investigating the prevalence and patterns of ...
Abeed Sarker, Dan Malone, Graciela Gonzalez, Karen O’Connor, Karen Smith, Matthew Scotch, Rachel Ginn   +6 more
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Mandatory Access Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Prescription Drug Abuse [PDF]

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2018
AbstractDespite the significant cost of prescription (Rx) drug abuse and calls from policymakers for effective interventions, there is limited research on the effects of policies intended to limit such abuse. This study estimates the effects of prescription drug monitoring (PDMP) programs, which constitute a key policy targeting access to non‐medical ...
Anca M, Grecu, Dhaval M, Dave, Henry, Saffer   +2 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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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 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, S Geoff Severtson, Heather McDaniel, Andrew Rosenblum, Chunki Fong, Theodore J Cicero, Matthew S Ellis, Steven P Kurtz, Mance E Buttram, Richard C Dart   +9 more
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