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Rx for Injury: Adolescent Prescription Drug Misuse

Journal of Emergency Nursing, 2014
In the past 2 decades, preventable injuries in children and adolescents have been on the decline.1 This decrease in injuries is a positive outcome of many years of injury prevention activities; however, one area in which injury rates are on the rise is drug poisoning.
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Prescription Drug Misuse in Late Adulthood

Journal of Drug Issues, 2015
Prescription drug misuse is a public health problem, and older adults are at high risk. The underlying factors associated with this problem in late adulthood are not well understood. Using cross-sectional data from telephone interviews with individuals aged 60 years and older in Arizona and Florida ( N = 2,000), this study tests whether hypotheses ...
Kristy Holtfreter, Michael D. Reisig, Eryn Nicole O’Neal   +2 more
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Nightlife scene involvement and patterns of prescription drug misuse

Drug and Alcohol Review, 2020
AbstractIntroduction and AimsParticipation in nightlife influences a range of health behaviours. Participants in various nightlife scenes have increasingly adopted prescription drug misuse into their substance use repertoires.Design and MethodsWith 404 young adults recruited via time–space sampling in New York, we examine the relationship of nightlife ...
Brian C. Kelly, Mike Vuolo
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Sensationalizing and Misusing the Prescription Drug Crisis

Contexts, 2020
Lindsay Kahle on The Prescription Drug Problem: A New American Crisis?
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Prescription drug monitoring programs

The Nurse Practitioner, 2015
To help combat prescription drug misuse, most states have implemented Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs)-electronic databases that collect and track prescription data and flag suspected diversion activities. Equipped with expanding prescriptive authority, NPs are now poised to become vital change agents in expanding the potential ...
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Prescription drug misuse.

Australian family physician, 2010
Recognising and dealing with patients who seek drugs for nonmedical purposes can be a difficult problem in general practice. 'Prescription shoppers' and patients with chronic nonmalignant pain problems are the main people who constitute this small but problematic group. The main drugs they seek are benzodiazepines and opioids.To provide data on current
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EU study reveals extent of prescription drug misuse

Nursing Standard, 2016
The first comparative study of prescription drug abuse in the European Union suggests the problem is bigger than previously thought.
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Abuse/misuse of non-prescription drugs.

Pharmacy world & science : PWS, 2000
To investigate the abuse of non-prescription (over-the-counter; OTC) products in Northern Ireland.A structured questionnaire covering various aspects of OTC drug abuse was mailed to all 509 community pharmacies in Northern Ireland.253 responses were received (response rate 49.7%) after two mailings.
G F, Hughes, J C, McElnay, C M, Hughes, P, McKenna   +3 more
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Prescription drug misuse among adolescents

2009
In spite of a growing body of knowledge of prescription drug misuse (PDM), several important gaps exist. This dissertation is comprised of three independent studies that advance knowledge of PDM among adolescents. Study 1 aims to provide a review of the epidemiology of adolescent PDM and offer a theoretical explanation of the problem using ...
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Clinical Presentations of Bupropion Prescription Drug Misuse

Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
Abstract Background Among prescribers, bupropion is considered a substance of low misuse potential, with some studies showing lesser misuse potential than caffeine. However, several case reports exist of recreational bupropion misuse and diversion. Our goal is to understand at-risk populations,
Greg, Noe, Kaushal, Shah, Samantha, Ongchuan, Sahil, Munjal   +3 more
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