Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and
social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …

Background: The non-medical use of and harms related to prescription opioid (PO)
analgesics–key medications to treat severe and chronic pain-are an emerging public health …

Debates about which policy initiatives can prevent or reduce the damage that illicit drugs
cause to the public good are rarely informed by scientific evidence. Fortunately, evidence …

overdose, 9 others are admitted for substance abuse treatment, 35 visit emergency
departments, 161 report drug abuse or dependence, and 461 report nonmedical uses of …

Prescription opioids are an important tool for physicians in treating pain but also carry
significant risks of harm when prescribed inappropriately or misused by patients or others …

Aims This paper aims to identify possible system‐level factors contributing to the marked
differences in the levels of non‐medical prescription opioid use (NMPOU) and prescription …

Abstract In the United States, opioid analgesics have increasingly been prescribed in the
treatment of chronic pain, and this trend has accompanied increasing rates of misuse and …

Objective Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee is a painful condition affecting∼ 13% of persons
ages> 65 years. We sought to examine whether the use of opioids in older persons with OA …

Background The non-medical use (NMU) of pharmaceutical drugs is an increasing public
health concern. This systematic review consolidates current knowledge about how …

Aims To examine the literature pertaining to the diversion and misuse of pharmaceutical
stimulants. Methods Relevant literature was identified through comprehensive MEDLINE …