To address the dual public health imperatives of enhanced pain management and decreased abuse and diversion of prescription medications, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently adopted regulations to allow practitioners to issue multiple prescriptions for a Schedule II controlled substance on the same day, to be dispensed sequentially. Public feedback suggested there was concern...

conclusions our results suggested that the prevalence of prescription drugs, alcohol and illicit substance use was relatively low, though still significant, among iranian students, which was strongly associated with family and friends’ use. the findings of this research can be used for planning and evaluating interventions by considering the risk factors and protective factors in universities. ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To define, among a sample of college students, the nature and extent of nonmedical use of prescription stimulants (NPS), including both overuse and use of someone else's drug, for attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); to characterize NPS among individuals not medically using a prescription stimulant for ADHD; and to determine whether NPS and overuse of a medically pre...

OBJECTIVES The primary objective of this study is to investigate household diversion of stimulant medication. Secondary objectives are to examine clinical/demographic predictors of diversion, types of formulations diverted, exposure to household diversion in the media, and storage of prescription stimulants within households. METHODS Questionnaires were completed by 180 parents of youth who w...

The National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting (NASPER) Act of 2005 is a law that provides for the establishment of a controlled substance monitoring program in each state, with communication between state programs. It amends the Public Health Service Act to require the United States (U.S.) Secretary of Health and Human Services to award 1-year grants to each state with an In the ...

Prescription drug abuse is America’s fastest-growing drug problem, with overdose deaths from opioid pain relievers increasing by 313% from 1999 to 2010. This paper estimates the effect of supply-side interventions on prescription drug availability, abuse, public health, and crime. The study is based in Florida, the epicenter of the prescription drug abuse epidemic in the late-2000s, where physi...

BACKGROUND 'Non-compliant' individuals in opioid maintenance treatment, OMT, are often met with tight control regimes to reduce the risk of 'diversion', which may lead to harm or death among persons outside of OMT. This article explores reported practices of, and motivations for, diversion of methadone and buprenorphine, in a group of imprisoned individuals in OMT. FINDINGS 28 in-depths inter...

BACKGROUND Despite increased attention to dentists' roles in curbing opioid misuse, abuse, and diversion, information regarding prescribing practices and the frequency of multiple concurrent opioid prescriptions among dental patients is limited. METHODS The authors reviewed South Carolina prescription drug monitoring program data representing dispensed medication for patients prescribed at le...