Prescription Drugs

03/01/2013 - "Although prescription drugs have been used effectively and appropriately for decades, deaths from prescription pain medicine in particular have reached epidemic proportions. "
12/01/2008 - "The increased use of prescription drugs has brought pain relief too many and often improved the quality of life of elderly patients. "
06/01/2016 - "In this study, I examine whether increased access to prescription drugs due to the introduction of the Medicare Part D program in 2006 led to better management of pain among the elderly. "
01/01/2023 - "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. "
12/01/2022 - "Thus, we sought to capture the medically relevant features of cannabis use in a population of patients with orthopedic pain and pair these data with objective measures of pain and prescription drug use. "

01/01/2021 - "Students who engaged in current past 30-day alcohol use, cigarette use, binge drinking, and nonmedical use of prescription drugs had significantly greater odds of past 30-day marijuana vaping. "
01/01/2023 - "Past 30-day self-reported use of any tobacco, any alcohol, binge drinking, cannabis, and any other illegal or misused prescription drugs. "
10/01/2020 - "Results revealed significant SBHC by SMY status interactions indicating a relatively lower likelihood of past 30-day alcohol use (23%), binge drinking (43%), use of e-cigarettes (22%), marijuana (44%), and unprescribed prescription drugs (28%) among SMY in SBHC schools compared with non-SMY at SBHC schools. "
10/01/2015 - "We focused on 30-day use of alcohol, binge drinking, marijuana, cigarette, cigarillo, and prescription drug use. "
10/30/2013 - "Energy drink consumption in the previous year was highly associated with having used tobacco and cannabis in the previous year, the non-medicinal use of prescription drugs in the previous year, and binge drinking in the previous month. "

07/01/2006 - "Native Americans had significantly greater rates of nonmedical prescription drug use and drug use disorders, highlighting the need for culturally-sensitive prevention and intervention programs. "
01/01/1994 - "A multidisciplinary substance abuse committee helped identify and treat patients suspected of abusing prescription drugs."
11/16/2023 - "The TAPS Tool ("Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription drug, and illicit Substance use") is a screening and brief assessment for detecting unhealthy substance use in healthcare settings that was developed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network and validated in a multisite study. "
03/01/2023 - "The aim of this study was to describe, using data from OPPIDUM survey, the evolution of illicit substance use or diverted prescription drug use among pregnant women visiting French addiction care centres from 2005 to 2018. "
01/01/2020 - "Data from the Prescription Drug Abuse, Misuse, and Dependence Study, a cross-sectional study focused on prescription drug users, were analyzed. "

10/01/2008 - "Among those elderly with chronic illness and older (71 years or more) elderly, prescription drug insurance was associated with slightly improved functional disability. "
11/01/2000 - "Prescription drugs have improved the length and quality of life for many persons, particularly those with chronic disease. "
01/01/2022 - "The objective of this study was to examine the frequency and content of messages related to pharmacological and evidence-based, non-pharmaceutical treatments in direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) for prescription drugs treating four chronic diseases in the United States. "
01/01/2019 - "Patients who were aged between 21 and 90 years, had Wellmark prescription drug coverage, were currently on at least three medications with one or more of the medications for a chronic condition and had received enhanced pharmacy services were invited for the study. "
01/01/2016 - "The aim of this study is to identify the social determinants of prescription drug use among adults with chronic diseases by examining the associations between socioeconomic position and prescription medicine use and perceived burden for pharmaceutical expenditure, using a sample of the Korean population from the 2008 Korea Health Panel, with 4 analytic models. "

01/01/2009 - "The number of patients seeking aid and the treatment patterns are estimated using 2004 national health surveys, costs for medications from national prescription drug pricing tariffs, and efficacy of the various smoking-cessation aids from clinical trial data. "
01/01/2020 - "All study persons living with HIV/AIDS in NHs had prescription drug coverage through Medicare's Part D program, and ART was 100% covered. "
12/10/2022 - "Natural sleep aids are gaining worldwide popularity as alternatives to prescription drugs for improving sleep. "
11/17/2017 - "In 2013-2014 e-cigarettes were used by American adult smokers as quit-smoking aids more frequently than NRT products or prescription drugs."
01/01/2017 - "This article examines whether California Medicare beneficiaries with HIV/AIDS choose Part D prescription drug plans that minimize their expenses. "