ReviewThe journal of pain2008
Nonmedical use of prescription opioids: motive and ubiquity issues.
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- The prescription opioid epidemic: a review of qualitative studies on the progression from initial use to abuse.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2017Pooled it
- Non-pharmacological factors that determine drug use and addiction.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2020Review
- Opioid use and misuse: health impact, prevalence, correlates and interventions.Psychology & health · 2019Review
- Barriers to accurately assessing prescription opioid misuse on surveys.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2019Article
- Dose-response relationship between functional pain interference and nonmedical analgesic use: Findings from a nationally representative Canadian survey.Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2018Article
- Nonmedical Use of Antihistaminergic Anxiolytics and Other Prescription Drugs among Persons with Opioid Dependence.Journal of addiction · 2016Article
- The effect of prescription opioid injection on the risk of non-fatal overdose among people who inject drugs.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2015Article
- Motivations for prescription drug misuse among young men who have sex with men (YMSM) in Philadelphia.The International journal on drug policy · 2015Article
- Latent class analysis of non-opioid dependent illegal pharmaceutical opioid users in Ohio.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2014Article
- Non-medical use of prescription opioids during the transition to adulthood: a multi-cohort national longitudinal study.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2014Article
- Motives for medical misuse of prescription opioids among adolescents.The journal of pain · 2013Article
- Chronic pain management strategies used by low-income overweight Latinos.Chronic illness · 2013Article
- Prescription opioid use among addictions treatment patients: nonmedical use for pain relief vs. other forms of nonmedical use.Addictive behaviors · 2013Article
- Alcohol and illegal drug use behaviors and prescription opioids use: how do nonmedical and medical users compare, and does motive to use really matter?European addiction research · 2013Article
- Motivational subtypes of nonmedical use of prescription medications: results from a national study.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2012Article
- Nonmedical use of prescription opioids among adolescents: subtypes based on motivation for use.Journal of addictive diseases · 2012Article
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- Chronic noncancer pain: characteristics of patients prescribed opioids by community physicians and referred to a tertiary pain clinic.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2011Article
- Review
- Birth-cohort trends in lifetime and past-year prescription opioid-use disorder resulting from nonmedical use: results from two national surveys.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2010Article
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Abstract
unlabelledTwo issues relating to prescription opioid nonmedical use that to our knowledge have not been comprehensively addressed in the peer-reviewed literature are discussed: Motives for nonmedical use and the extent of nonmedical use of prescription opioids in other countries. The United States' national annual survey on illicit drug use in the general population (National Survey on Drug Use and Health) asks respondents whether they have used prescription opioids for nonmedical purposes but does not assess motives for such use. By not assessing motives, nonmedical users who use only for pain relief and nonmedical users who have other motives for use are grouped together, but 2 recent epidemiological studies suggest that these 2 groups may differ in a propensity to have substance use-related problems. We suggest that the survey add a question that assesses motives for nonmedical use. Regarding whether countries besides the United States have problems associated with nonmedical use of prescription opioids, after searching for epidemiological surveys and other materials potentially relevant to this issue, we were unable to determine the extent of nonmedical use of prescription opioids in other countries or draw cross-national comparisons. We suggest that more countries include specific questions about nonmedical use of prescription opioids in their national epidemiological surveys. PERSPECTIVE: We believe that critical information surrounding the nonmedical use of prescription opioids is not being gathered. Such information would allow for a better understanding of the problem. We invite discussion and commentaries regarding the issues we raise to more effectively address this public health issue.
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