Prescription Drug Abuse and Provider-Patient Communication: A Qualitative Analysis of the Perspectives of Prescribers and Patients [PDF]
, 2017 Prescription drug abuse is a public health problem of epidemic proportions in the United States. Provider-patient communication underpins many initiatives aimed at preventing and reducing the public health burden of prescription drug abuse.
Mathis, Stephanie M
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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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, 2016 Prescription drug abuse is the use of a prescription medication in a way that is not intended by the prescribing doctor and can include taking medication that belongs to someone else, taking a medication in a way other than prescribed, or taking a ...
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Polypharmacy Among Prescription Drug Users [PDF]
, 2017 Polypharmacy, i.e., the misuse of multiple prescription drugs or prescription medication with other substances, is highly problematic. Whether unintentional or deliberate, misuse of multiple drugs can lead to adverse effects including addiction; drug ...
Greene, Marion S., Omenka, Issac
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A Phenomenological Study of Prescription Drug Abuse Among Children and Youth [PDF]
, 2014 Prescription drugs ranked as the third highest substance used/abused among Canadian youth (Health Canada, 2014). This research is a retrospective phenomenological study on child and youth prescription drug abuse. Currently, there is a lack of qualitative
Collins, Eric A
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, 2020 This informative paper analyzed the prescription drug abuse epidemic among the adolescent population through a holistic lens. The prescription drug abuse epidemic has been identified as a national and community healthcare issue due to the harmful ...
Bray, Laura, Lauer, Olivia Ann
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Predictors of loss due to pharmaceutical fraud: evidence from the U.S.
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2022 Background Globally and in the U.S. in particular, pharmaceutical fraud account for a large number out of all crimes in health care, which result into severe costs to the society.
Yuriy Timofeyev +2 more
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A narrative review of global perspective on illicit drug utilization and substance use disorders
Archives of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2022 Drug addiction and abuse are major public health issues across the globe that impact millions of people. Substance abuse and dependence seem to have been relatively high among university students and laborers and comparatively low among school students ...
Paila Bhanujirao +3 more
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Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Curriculum for College Students [PDF]
, 2016 The recreational use of prescription drugs has been increasingly common in university communities (Office of National Drug Control Policy, 2015). Students may abuse prescription drugs to get high, study longer or sleep.
Colangelo, Danielle M +1 more
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Community Perceptions of Prescription Drug Abuse in Eastern Kentucky. [PDF]
, 2011 Personal interviews exploring attitudes toward prescription drug abuse were completed by 17 residents over 18 years of age from Kentucky\u27s Pike and Letcher counties.
Browning, Ashley Marie
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