Retail Pharmacies and Drug Diversion during the Opioid Epidemic

Opioid therapy and prescription drug diversion.

[Personalized drug dispensation in retail pharmacies: an evidence-based measure?].

Dispensación personalizada de medicamentos en las oficinas de farmacia: ¿una medida basada en la evidencia?

Forecasting the opioid epidemic.

S ince 2000, almost half a million Americans have died from drug overdoses. This modern plague— largely driven by opioid addiction—degrades health, saps productivity, spawns crime, and devastates families, all at enormous societal cost. How did we get here, and what do we do now? About 20 years ago, compassionate advocacy for better treatment of chronic pain, combined with aggressive marketing ...

Modeling the opioid epidemic

Opioid addiction has become a global epidemic and a national health crisis in recent years, with the number of opioid overdose fatalities steadily increasing since the 1990s. In contrast to the dynamics of a typical illicit drug or disease epidemic, opioid addiction has its roots in legal, prescription medication a fact which greatly increases the exposed population and provides additional drug...

Moving beyond misuse and diversion: the urgent need to consider the role of iatrogenic addiction in the current opioid epidemic.

An epidemic of drug overdose deaths has led to calls for programs and policies to limit misuse and diversion of opioid medications. Any parallel call to consider the risk of iatrogenic addiction when treating pain has been muted in comparison. We have moved beyond questions of nonmedical use, abuse, and diversion to highlight the role of prescription opioids in causing addiction even when presc...