Nonmedical Use of Prescription Opioids: Motive and Ubiquity Issues
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Nonmedical use of prescription opioids: motive and ubiquity issues.
UNLABELLED Two issues relating to prescription opioid nonmedical use that to our knowledge have not been comprehensively addressed in the peer-reviewed literature are discussed: Motives for nonmedical use and the extent of nonmedical use of prescription opioids in other countries. The United States' national annual survey on illicit drug use in the general population (National Survey on Drug Us...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Pain
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1526-5900
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2007.12.008