ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2010
Prescription drugs purchased through the internet: who are the end users?
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The epidemiology of benzodiazepine misuse: A systematic review.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Pooled it
- Quality of online pharmacies and websites selling prescription drugs: a systematic review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2011Pooled it
- Online Pharmacies Selling Prescription Drugs: Systematic Review.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Association of New Perioperative Benzodiazepine Use With Persistent Benzodiazepine Use.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Guidelines for Opioid Prescribing in Children and Adolescents After Surgery: An Expert Panel Opinion.JAMA surgery · 2021Review
- Nonmedical prescription psychiatric drug use and the darknet: A cryptomarket analysis.The International journal on drug policy · 2019Article
- The extent of use of online pharmacies in Saudi Arabia.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2017Article
- Nonmedical use of prescription drugs in the European Union.BMC psychiatry · 2016Article
- Effect of a "pill mill" law on opioid prescribing and utilization: The case of Texas.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2016Article
- Use of the Internet to Obtain Drugs without a Prescription Among Treatment-involved Adolescents and Young Adults.Journal of child & adolescent substance abuse · 2016Article
- Establishing a Link Between Prescription Drug Abuse and Illicit Online Pharmacies: Analysis of Twitter Data.Journal of medical Internet research · 2015Article
- Prescription Drug Diversion: Predictors of Illicit Acquisition and Redistribution in Three U.S. Metropolitan Areas.AIMS public health · 2015Article
- Key Data Gaps Regarding the Public Health Issues Associated with Opioid Analgesics.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2015Review
- Sources of nonmedically used prescription stimulants: differences in onset, recency and severity of misuse in a population-based study.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2014Article
- Understanding the rural-urban differences in nonmedical prescription opioid use and abuse in the United States.American journal of public health · 2014Article
- Data Sources Regarding the Nonmedical Use of Pharmaceutical Opioids in the United States.Reviews in health care · 2014Article
- Revisiting the role of the urban environment in substance use: the case of analgesic overdose fatalities.American journal of public health · 2013Article
- Crowdsourcing black market prices for prescription opioids.Journal of medical Internet research · 2013Article
- Health outcomes in patients using no-prescription online pharmacies to purchase prescription drugs.Journal of medical Internet research · 2012Article
- Patterns of prescription medication diversion among drug dealers.Drugs (Abingdon, England) · 2012Article
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Abstract
Although prescription drugs are readily available on the Internet, little is known about the prevalence of Internet use for the purchase of medications without a legitimate prescription, and the characteristics of those that obtain non-prescribed drugs through online sources. The scientific literature on this topic is limited to anecdotal reports or studies plagued by small sample sizes. Within this context, the focus of this paper is an examination of five national data sets from the U.S. with the purpose of estimating: (1) how common obtaining prescription medications from the Internet actually is, (2) who are the typical populations of "end users" of these non-prescribed medications, and (3) which drugs are being purchased without a prescription. Three of the data sets are drawn from the RADARS (Researched Abuse Diversion and Addiction-Related Surveillance) System, a comprehensive series of studies designed to collect timely and geographically specific data on the abuse and diversion of a number of prescription stimulants and opioid analgesics. The remaining data sets include the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) and the Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey. Our analysis yielded uniformly low rates of prescription drug acquisition from online sources across all five data systems we examined. The consistency of this finding across very diverse populations suggests that the Internet is a relatively minor source for illicit purchases of prescription medications by the individual end-users of these drugs.
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