Objective: Doctor-shopping has significant consequences for patients and payers and can
indicate misuse of drugs, polypharmacy, less continuity of care, and increased medical …

Opioid analgesics and maintenance treatments, benzodiazepines and z-drugs, and other
sedatives and stimulants are increasingly being abused to induce psychoactive effects or …

Doctor shopping is defined as seeing multiple treatment providers, either during a single
illness episode or to procure prescription medications illicitly. According to the available …

Novel Psychoactive Substances: Classification, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Second
Edition provides readers with a comprehensive examination on the classification, detection …

Purpose This longitudinal study aimed to examine the trends in antipsychotics,
antidepressants, anxiolytics, and hypnotics/sedatives consumption in Croatia over a 10-year …

Background: Prescription opioid abuse is not homogeneous due to varying patterns of use
and different geographic preferences. Because doctor shopping is one of the main sources …

Background The abuse of prescription opioids and its subsequent consequences is an
important public concern particularly in the USA. The literature on opioid analgesic abuse is …

Background Tianeptine (Stablon, Coaxil) abuse and dependence has become increasingly
prominent worldwide with recent presence in the United States. Objective In this article, we …

It is important to assess drug abuse liability in 'real life'using different surveillance systems.
Some are based on specific population surveys, such as individuals with drug abuse or …

Doctor shopping is the practice of visiting multiple physicians to obtain multiple
prescriptions. Health information technology (HIT) allows healthcare providers and patients …