Introduction: Irrational drug prescription is a controversial issue around the world that inter-feres not only with the patient's life but also with the society and economy. Despite few studies, there is no enough data on the prescription ha‌bits of dental practitioners. So, we aimed at eva‌luating the same issue in Rasht, Iran. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional re-trospective study r...

Prescription drug abuse has escalated to a crisis in the United States. According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, young people abuse prescription drugs second only to marijuana, and one-third of people who start using illicit drugs begin with prescription drugs [1]. Moreover, prescription analgesics were associated with more than 16,000 deaths, with frequent contributions from ot...

INTRODUCTION Our objective was to determine the relationship between polypharmacy (treatment with prescription drugs from 6 or more drug classes concurrently) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among US adults with arthritis. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study that used 2-year longitudinal data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to analyze a cohort of 6,132 adult...

In a recent press release Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Chairman and President of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University called for a major shift in American attitudes about substance abuse and addiction and a top to bottom overhaul in the nation's healthcare, criminal justice, social service, and eduction systems to curtail the rise in illegal drug use and other...

The inappropriate use and abuse of prescription drugs is a serious public health problem. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has declared that the United States is in the midst of an epidemic of deaths from prescription drug overdose (1). The CDC reports that prescription drug overdose is the second leading cause of deaths from unintentional injuries in the United States, exce...

Considering that the elderly are heavy consumers of medications, with significant consequences for their living conditions, the current study was intended to analyze the characteristics of such drug prescription, using the indicators proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO), and to characterize the drug classes prescribed to them in four units under the Family Health Strategy (FHS) in Ma...