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Prescription Drug Misuse in Late Adulthood
Journal of Drug Issues, 2015Prescription 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 +2 more
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Prescription drug misuse: Is technology friend or foe?
Drug and Alcohol Review, 2009Abstract Introduction and Aims. Prescription drug misuse and related harms have been increasing considerably over the past decade. At the same time, there has also been rapid growth in the use of online and Internet technologies. Thus, it is important that we understand the role online and Internet technologies play in prescription drug ...
Nielson, S., Barratt, Monica
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Prescription drug monitoring programs
The Nurse Practitioner, 2015To 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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Nightlife scene involvement and patterns of prescription drug misuse
Drug and Alcohol Review, 2020AbstractIntroduction 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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Rx for Injury: Adolescent Prescription Drug Misuse
Journal of Emergency Nursing, 2014In 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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Misuse of prescription drugs and overdose deaths
Journal of Substance Use, 2016AbstractAims. This study examined overdose deaths involving benzodiazepines and prescription opioids, and studied associated factors. Methods. In a retrospective registry study of drug-overdose deaths (n = 167) with post-mortem toxicological findings of benzodiazepines and/or opioids/carisoprodol (strong analgesics) in Oslo, Norway, from 2006 to 2008 ...
Christian Tjagvad +5 more
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Prescription Drug Misuse Among College Students
Journal of Drug Issues, 2016Prescription drug misuse (PDM) is a well-documented trend among college students, with a rising prevalence in recent years. Motivations for PDM are an important aspect of the dynamics surrounding this behavior. Using a sample of undergraduate students taken from a large southern university ( N = 841), this study separates users based on their motives ...
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Disability status and prescription drug misuse among U.S. adults
Addictive Behaviors, 2018The U.S. is in the midst of a public health crisis related to drug overdose deaths. Largely responsible for the dramatic increase in overdose deaths is the misuse of prescription drugs such as opioids and benzodiazepines. While much research attention has focused on correlates of prescription drug misuse in recent years, notable gaps in the literature ...
Jason A. Ford +2 more
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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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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, 2016The first comparative study of prescription drug abuse in the European Union suggests the problem is bigger than previously thought.
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