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CDC survey finds that 1 in 5 U.S. high school students have abused prescription drugs

Publication Date:

June 3, 2010

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Tags: adolescents, demographic characteristics, epidemiology, government reports, survey data

Prescription for peril: how insurance fraud finances theft and abuse of addictive prescription drugs

Publication Date:

2007

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Tags: case investigation, celebrities, demographic characteristics, diversion, doctor shopping, epidemiology, fraud, Internet, law enforcement, methadone, Oxycontin, pain management, pill mills, pill pushers, PMP impact, Vicodin, white paper, Xanax

Utah launches studies of its overdose deaths

Publication Date:

2010

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Tags: epidemiology, news articles, overdoses and deaths, risk factors, Utah

NIH podcast on prescription drug abuse in women

Publication Date:

2010

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Tags: addiction, demographic characteristics, epidemiology, news articles

Prescription drug abuse: what is being done to address this new drug epidemic? Testimony before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources

Author:

Manchikanti, L.

Publication Date:

2006

Publication:

Pain Physician. 2006 9(4):287-321

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Tags: ARCOS, BJA Harold Rogers, DAWN data, diversion, doctor shopping, epidemiology, Internet, journal articles, KASPER, Kentucky, methadone, NASPER, opioid abuse, pain management, PMP impact, PMP operations, prescribing practices, social costs, survey data, testimony, training and education

National drug control policy and prescription drug abuse: facts and fallacies

Author:

Manchikanti, L.

Publication Date:

2007

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Pain Physician, 10(3):399-424

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Tags: BJA Harold Rogers, DAWN data, diversion, doctor shopping, drug control policy, epidemiology, Internet, journal articles, KASPER, methadone, NASPER, opioid abuse, overdoses and deaths, pain management, PMP impact, PMP operations, prescribing practices, social costs, survey data, training and education, undertreatment of pain

Opioid prescriptions soar: increase in legitimate use as well as abuse

Author:

Kuehn, B.M.

Publication Date:

2007

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JAMA. 297(3):249-51

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Tags: diversion, epidemiology, journal articles, opioid abuse, pain management, prescribing practices, undertreatment of pain, Vicodin

Gender differences in risk factors for aberrant prescription opioid use

Author:

Jamison, R. N.

Publication Date:

2010

Publication:

Journal of Pain 11:4 312-320.

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Tags: demographic characteristics, epidemiology, journal articles, opioid abuse, risk factors

National prescription drug threat assessment

Publication Date:

2009

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Tags: diversion, epidemiology, government reports, law enforcement, opioid abuse, PMP impact, social costs, survey data

Increase in fatal poisonings involving opioid analgesics in the United States, 1999–2006

Publication Date:

2009

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Tags: benzodiazepines, demographic characteristics, epidemiology, government reports, methadone, opioid abuse, overdoses and deaths