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Subtypes of nonmedical prescription drug misuse [PDF]
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2009 This study used three characteristics (i.e., motive, route of administration, and co-ingestion with alcohol) of nonmedical prescription drug misuse across four separate classes (i.e., pain, sedative/anxiety, sleeping, and stimulant medications) to examine subtypes and drug related problems.
Sean Esteban, McCabe +2 more
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Prescription opioid misuse in relation to addiction susceptibility among women at a Saudi university
Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal, 2023 Objectives: The trends of prescription opioid misuse are understudied in Arab populations, let alone among university students. Additionally, little is known about the psychological traits that increase susceptibility for such behaviors in this region ...
Rufaidah Dabbagh +8 more
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Doctor or drug dealer? International legal provisions for the legitimate handling of drugs of abuse [PDF]
, 2020 © The Author(s) 2020. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in: Gallagher, C. T., Atik, S. K., Isse, L., & Mann, S. K. (2020). Doctor or drug dealer?
Atik, Sanaa +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 BackgroundPrescription drug diversion, and misuse has increased over the past decade and is notably in high-income-countries and significantly contributes to the opioid epidemic.
Buyisile Chibi +2 more
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Prescription opioid injection and risk of hepatitis C in relation to traditional drugs of misuse in a prospective cohort of street youth [PDF]
, 2014 Objective: Despite dramatic increases in the misuse of prescription opioids, the extent to which their intravenous injection places drug users at risk of acquiring hepatitis C virus (HCV) remains unclear. We sought to compare risk of HCV acquisition from
DeBeck, Kora +5 more
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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 +2 more
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Individual and county-level factors associated with use of multiple prescribers and multiple pharmacies to obtain opioid prescriptions in California. [PDF]
, 2012 Use of multiple prescribers and pharmacies is a means by which some individuals misuse opioids. Community characteristics may be important determinants of the likelihood of this phenomenon independent of individual-level factors. This was a retrospective
Han, Huijun +3 more
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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 +2 more
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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 Drug Misuse Among Club Drug-Using Young Adults [PDF]
The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2007 Nonmedical prescription (Rx) drug use has recently increased, particularly among young adults. Using time-space sampling to generate a probability-based sample of club-going young adults (18-29), 400 subjects provided data on Rx drug misuse. Club-going young adults misuse Rx drugs at high rates. An overwhelming majority of the sample indicated lifetime
Brian C, Kelly, Jeffrey T, Parsons
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