Results 21 to 30 of about 28,302 (250)

Prescription drug misuse during pandemic

Indian Journal of Forensic and Community Medicine, 2021
Prescription drug misuse is when someone takes a medication inappropriately. The prescription drug misuse is not an uncommon issue but the use of prescription drugs has significantly increased during the covid 19 pandemic. The major factors that has contributed to the increased dependence to prescription drug use during the pandemic is the increased ...
Anand Shankar, Anupama J Anand
openaire   +2 more sources

Quantitative Survey on Prevalence of Prescription Pain Medications and Stimulants Use in Young Adults

Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 2023
Background: Prescription drug use including pain relievers and stimulants has been a growing problem in young adults and the issue has been a public health concern for years.
Sreelekha Prakash, Yulong Gu, Michele Previti   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Non-medical use of prescription drugs in Bangalore, India

Indian Journal of Public Health, 2015
Background: Non-medical prescription drug use is an ongoing problem in India; however, there is paucity of literature in the Indian population. Objective: The objective of the present study is to explore the non-medical use of prescription medicines in ...
Prasanthi Nattala, Pratima Murthy, Thennarasu Kandavel, Linda B Cottler   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predictors of Pain Reliever Misuse Among Respondents of the United States 2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health

Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 2022
The risk factors for potential opioid misuse and abuse in patients receiving long-term opioid pain treatment have been a topic of interest in research for many years. There are differences among patients who receive long-term opioid pain treatment. These
Marissa S Matta, Timothy P Janikowski
doaj   +1 more source

Contextualizing prescription opioid misuse and heroin use within dimensional models of drug involvement

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 2022
Background: Prescription opioid misuse (POM) is often implicated in heroin initiation, despite evidence that POM does not predict heroin initiation any better than other drug use.
Genevieve F. Dash, Ian R. Gizer, Wendy S. Slutske   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Misuse of prescription and illicit drugs among high-risk young adults in Los Angeles and New York

Journal of Public Health Research, 2012
Background. Prescription drug misuse among young adults is increasingly viewed as a public health concern, yet most research has focused on student populations and excluded high-risk groups.
Stephen E. Lankenau, Sheree M. Schrager, Karol Silva, Alex Kecojevic, Jennifer Jackson Bloom, Carolyn Wong, Ellen Iverson   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Focus on Over-the-Counter Drugs' Misuse: A Systematic Review on Antihistamines, Cough Medicines, and Decongestants

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Background: Over the past 20 years or so, the drug misuse scenario has seen the emergence of both prescription-only and over-the-counter (OTC) medications being reported as ingested for recreational purposes.
Fabrizio Schifano, Stefania Chiappini, Stefania Chiappini, Andrea Miuli, Alessio Mosca, Maria Chiara Santovito, John M. Corkery, Amira Guirguis, Mauro Pettorruso, Massimo Di Giannantonio, Giovanni Martinotti   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Misuse of prescription medicines is as prevalent as the use of recreational drugs and novel psychoactive substances in Singapore: an unrecognised public health issue?

Singapore Medical Journal, 2022
Introduction: Misuse of prescription medicines and the harms associated with such use are growing threats across the world. There is currently, however, limited data on the extent of prescription medicine misuse in Singapore and whether this is a current
Wui Ling Chan, Paul Ivor Dargan, Colleen Michelle Haynes, Jody Lynn Green, Joshua Curtis Black, Richard Charles Dart, David Michael Wood   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

User Experiences of Prescription and Over-The-Counter Drug Abuse in Aden City, Yemen

Pharmacy, 2018
Khat chewing is commonplace in Yemen, but little else is known about the misuse of other drugs, especially how such misuse may intersect with Khat use.
Ebtesam A. Abood, Jenny Scott, Mayyada Wazaify   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source