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Complexities in understanding and addressing the serious public health issues related to the nonmedical use of prescription drugs.

Addictive behaviors

Arria AM, Compton WM.
PMID: 27639956
Addict Behav. 2017 Feb;65:215-217. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.09.002. Epub 2016 Sep 09.

No abstract available.

Normative Influences on the Role of Prescription Medicine Misuse among College Students in the United States.

Health communication

Jain P, Humienny R.
PMID: 30628463
Health Commun. 2020 Mar;35(3):331-340. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2018.1563029. Epub 2019 Jan 10.

Prescription medicine misuse is a growing problem in college campuses across the US. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recently declared that the problem has reached epidemic proportions and is leading to a significant loss of lives every day....

Development and Acceptability of a Method to Investigate Prescription Drug Misuse in Daily Life: Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Papp LM, Barringer A, Blumenstock SM, Gu P, Blaydes M, Lam J, Kouros CD.
PMID: 32877351
JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2020 Oct 01;8(10):e21676. doi: 10.2196/21676.

BACKGROUND: Prescription drug misuse and abuse is an established public health challenge, and young adults are particularly affected. There is a striking lack of real-time, naturalistic data collection assessing intentions to misuse and other precipitating factors at the time...

Shared correlates of prescription drug misuse and severe suicide ideation among clinical patients at risk for suicide.

Suicide & life-threatening behavior

Logan JE, Ertl AM, Rostad WL, Herbst JH, Ashby Plant E.
PMID: 32860264
Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2020 Dec;50(6):1276-1287. doi: 10.1111/sltb.12685. Epub 2020 Aug 28.

OBJECTIVE: Unintentional drug overdose and suicide have emerged as public health problems. Prescription drug misuse can elevate risk of overdose. Severe suicidal ideation increases risk of suicide. We identified shared correlates of both risk factors to inform cross-cutting prevention...

Two Epidemics and a Pandemic: The Collision of Prescription Drug Misuse and Racism during COVID-19.

Journal of psychoactive drugs

Brown P, Watts V, Hanna M, Rizk M, Tucker E, Saddlemire A, Peteet B.
PMID: 34694200
J Psychoactive Drugs. 2021 Nov-Dec;53(5):413-421. doi: 10.1080/02791072.2021.1992048. Epub 2021 Oct 25.

The present study investigated the relationship between perceived racial discrimination and prescription drug misuse (PDM) among Asian, Black, and Latinx Americans during the COVID-19 crisis. U.S. racial/ethnic minorities may have been uniquely affected by two national and one global...

Real-time prescription drug monitoring program in Australia: We should be ready.

Drug and alcohol review

Islam MM, McRae IS.
PMID: 25564739
Drug Alcohol Rev. 2015 May;34(3):344-5. doi: 10.1111/dar.12242. Epub 2015 Jan 07.

No abstract available.

Commentary on Maier et al. (2016): Language matters--a call for caution regarding research on non-medical use of prescription drugs.

Addiction (Abingdon, England)

Arria AM.
PMID: 26767338
Addiction. 2016 Feb;111(2):296-7. doi: 10.1111/add.13234.

No abstract available.

Proxy administration: A proxy for whom?.

Social science & medicine (1982)

Britten N.
PMID: 28964626
Soc Sci Med. 2019 Jul;233:262-264. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.09.017. Epub 2017 Sep 18.

No abstract available.

HOW TO KEEP TABS ON Rx DRUG ABUSE.

Behavioral healthcare

Albright B.
PMID: 26193748
Behav Healthc. 2015;35(3):28, 30, 32-3.

No abstract available.

Motives for illicit prescription drug use among university students: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

The International journal on drug policy

Bennett T, Holloway K.
PMID: 28343063
Int J Drug Policy. 2017 Jun;44:12-22. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.02.012. Epub 2017 Mar 23.

BACKGROUND: There is a growing body of research on the motives for prescription drug misuse (PDM) among university students. However, the overall findings of this research are hard to decipher. Studies use different methods, they examine different drug types,...

Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse Through State Policy: The Role of Nursing in Successful Implementation.

Journal of addictions nursing

Norwood CW, Biviji-Sharma R, Knotts A, Omenka I, Stone C, Purviance D.
PMID: 26669227
J Addict Nurs. 2015 Oct-Dec;26(4):203-7. doi: 10.1097/JAN.0000000000000097.

Prescription drug abuse has become a top public health concern in the United States in recent years. Changes in prescribing practices and the way in which health providers manage pain resulted from national quality improvement efforts in the 1990s....

Prescription drug abuse: from epidemiology to public policy.

Journal of substance abuse treatment

McHugh RK, Nielsen S, Weiss RD.
PMID: 25239857
J Subst Abuse Treat. 2015 Jan;48(1):1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2014.08.004. Epub 2014 Aug 28.

Prescription drug abuse has reached an epidemic level in the United States. The prevalence of prescription drug abuse escalated rapidly beginning in the late 1990s, requiring a significant increase in research to better understand the nature and treatment of...

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