SynthesisAmerican journal of public health2014
Prescription medication sharing: a systematic review of the literature.
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Psychosocial risks of prescription drug misuse among U.S. racial/ethnic minorities: A systematic review.Journal of ethnicity in substance abusePooled it
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- A Biosocial Perspective to Understand Antimicrobial Prescription Practices: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study from a Public Community Health Center in North India.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Beyond the prescription: Global observations on the social implications of GLP-1 receptor agonists for weight loss.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Facilitators and Barriers to Prescription Medication Sharing: A Qualitative Study from the Public's Perspective in Saudi Arabia.Drug, healthcare and patient safety · 2025Article
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- Population prevalence of antiretroviral therapy sharing and its association with HIV viremia in rural Uganda: a cross-sectional population-based study.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2023Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 Outbreak on the Antibiotic Use Patterns among a Rural Community Population in Eastern China.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Primary care physician responses to requests by older adults for unnecessary drugs: a qualitative study.BMC primary care · 2022Article
- Alternative use of buprenorphine among people who use opioids in three U.S. Cities.Substance abuse · 2022Article
- Non-prescription acquisition of antibiotics: Prevalence, motives, pathways and explanatory factors in the Swedish population.PloS one · 2022Article
- Evaluation of Prescription Medication Sharing Among Adults in South Korea: A Cross-Sectional Survey.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Article
- Antibiotics in the Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study to Understand Users' Perspectives of Antibiotic Seeking and Consumption Behaviors in Bangladesh.Patient preference and adherence · 2022Article
- 'When will the doctor be around so that I come by?!' Geo-socio effects on health care supply, access and utilisation: experiences from Kalangala Islands, Uganda.BMC health services research · 2021Review
- Building and experimenting with an agent-based model to study the population-level impact of CommunityRx, a clinic-based community resource referral intervention.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Differences in the Pattern of Non-Recreational Sharing of Prescription Analgesics among Patients in Rural and Urban Areas.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Association of Gestational Opioid Exposure and Risk of Major and Minor Congenital Malformations.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- What Do Young Adults Think about the Safety of Over-the-Counter Analgesics? Findings from a Cross-Sectional Survey.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Opioid knowledge and perceptions among Hispanic/Latino residents in Los Angeles.Substance abuse · 2021Article
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Abstract
We reviewed the literature on nonrecreational prescription medication sharing. We searched PubMed, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and a customized multidatabase for all relevant articles published through 2013; our final sample comprised 19 studies from 9 countries with 36 182 participants, ranging in age from children to older adults, and published between 1990 and 2011. The prevalence rate for borrowing someone's prescription medication was 5% to 51.9% and for lending prescription medication to someone else was 6% to 22.9%. A wide range of medicines were shared between family members, friends, and acquaintances. Sharing of many classes of prescription medication was common. Further research should explore why people share, how they decide to lend or borrow, whether they are aware of the risks, and how they assess the relevance of those risks.
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