OBJECTIVE To quantify the potential impact of reductions in positive subjective measures from human abuse liability studies on real-world rates of nonmedical use of prescription drugs and associated healthcare resource utilization and costs. DESIGN Positive subjective endpoints "overall drug liking," in-the-moment "drug liking," and "drug high" Emaxs (peak effects) were recorded from publishe...

BACKGROUND Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) are proving to be valuable resources in fighting the prescription drug abuse epidemic through improved access to patient drug histories. Ninety-four percent of Indiana pharmacists have heard of Indiana's PDMP (INSPECT), only 71% of them reported using the program in 2012. OBJECTIVE To identify barriers to PDMP use in outpatient pharmaci...

Background and Objectives: The expanding field of psychopharmacology is constantly seeking new and improved drugs to treat psychiatric disorders. Although psychotropic drugs have had a remarkable impact in psychiatry, their utilization, effectiveness, and side effects in the in clinical practice need continuous study. The present study was thus designed to analyze the pattern of psychotropic dr...

BACKGROUND Reports from drug utilization reviews are important tools employed in the assessment of healthcare practices. The objective of this study was to evaluate drug utilization patterns among elderly hospitalized patients on poly-pharmacy regimens in Pakistan. METHODS A descriptive, non-experimental, cross-sectional study was carried out from December 2015 to March 2016 in six tertiary-c...

Drug Utilization Evaluation (DUE) studies are designed to assess drug usage appropriateness. We aim to evaluate the drug utilization of intravenous ciprofloxacin and imipenem, two of the broad spectrum antibiotics that consume a significant proportion of our hospitals' outlay, in different wards of a teaching hospital in Zabol. During a 5 months period (December 2010 to May 2011), 263 patients ...

The aim of the study was to determine cardiovascular drugs utilization and quality of prescribing in Croatia from 2003 to 2008. Data on the outpatient utilization of cardiovascular drugs in Croatia were collected during 2003-2008. Data on the size and number of packages, were obtained from Croatian institute for Health Insurance (CIHI). Based on the data obtained, the numbers of DDD and DDD per...