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Sources of pharmaceutical opioids for non-medical use among young adults.
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- Sources of Nonmedical Prescription Drug Misuse Among US High School Seniors: Differences in Motives and Substance Use Behaviors.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2019Article
- Assessment of Prescriber and Pharmacy Shopping Among the Family Members of Patients Prescribed Opioids.JAMA network open · 2019Article
- Presentations to the emergency department with non-medical use of benzodiazepines and Z-drugs: profiling and relation to sales data.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2019Article
- Access to substance use treatment among young adults who use prescription opioids non-medically.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2016Article
- Exploring the latent trait of opioid use disorder criteria among frequent nonmedical prescription opioid users.Journal of psychiatric research · 2016Article
- Predictors of transition to heroin use among initially non-opioid dependent illicit pharmaceutical opioid users: A natural history study.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2016Article
- Dynamic model of nonmedical opioid use trajectories and potential policy interventions.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2015Article
- Sources of prescription opioids and tranquilizers for misuse among U.S. young adults: differences between high school dropouts and graduates and associations with adverse outcomes.Journal of addictive diseasesArticle
- Sources of Prescription Medication Misuse Among Young Adults in the United States: The Role of Educational Status.The Journal of clinical psychiatryArticle
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Abstract
The study uses qualitative and quantitative data to describe sources of pain pills for illicit use among young adult (18- to 23-year-old) users. Respondent-driven sampling was used to recruit 383 individuals in the Columbus, Ohio, area. The sample was almost 50% Caucasian and about 55% male. Qualitative interview participants (n = 45) were selected from the larger sample. Qualitative data suggest that pharmaceutical opioid availability was so pervasive that most individuals did not have to venture outside of their immediate social networks to find people who sold or shared pills. Participants emphasized differences between those who are actively involved in obtaining pills and those who play a more passive role. Active involvement was described as going out searching for pills and paying money to obtain them. In contrast, passive role included obtaining pills when somebody offered or shared them free of charge. Multiple logistic regression analysis indicates that a more active role in obtaining pharmaceutical opioids was related to being White, more frequent use of pharmaceutical opioids, extended-release oxycodone use, and using pharmaceutical opioids to get high, as opposed to self-treating a health problem. The study results can help inform drug use epidemiology, interventions, and policy.
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