The Pennsylvania Prescription Drug Monitoring Program: Reducing the Misuse of Prescription Opioids
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Prescription drug misuse.
BACKGROUND Recognising and dealing with patients who seek drugs for nonmedical purposes can be a difficult problem in general practice. 'Prescription shoppers' and patients with chronic nonmalignant pain problems are the main people who constitute this small but problematic group. The main drugs they seek are benzodiazepines and opioids. OBJECTIVE To provide data on current trends in prescrip...
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عنوان ژورنال: Commonwealth
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2469-7672
DOI: 10.15367/com.v20i2-3.191