Coming to terms with the nonmedical use of prescription medications

In this commentary we highlight limitations with the way nonmedical use of prescription medications has been measured in U.S. national studies. We also offer an alternative way of conceptualizing the nonmedical use of prescription medications for future study.

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Autores principales: Boyd, Carol J, McCabe, Sean E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2600778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19017405
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-597X-3-22
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spelling pubmed-26007782008-12-12 Coming to terms with the nonmedical use of prescription medications Boyd, Carol J McCabe, Sean E Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy Commentary In this commentary we highlight limitations with the way nonmedical use of prescription medications has been measured in U.S. national studies. We also offer an alternative way of conceptualizing the nonmedical use of prescription medications for future study. BioMed Central 2008-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2600778/ /pubmed/19017405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-597X-3-22 Text en Copyright © 2008 Boyd and McCabe; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Coming to terms with the nonmedical use of prescription medications
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2600778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19017405
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