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Patterns of Marijuana Use in a 6-Month Pain Management Sample in the United States
This study is a 6-month retrospective analysis of urine drug testing (UDT) data from a pain management population among specimens with clinician-ordered marijuana testing (N = 194 809). Descriptive statistics about the specimen positivity of clinician-ordered marijuana UDT are provided as well as ot...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5562347/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29104427 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1178221817724783 |
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author | Smiley-McDonald, Hope M Moore, Katherine N Heller, David C Ropero-Miller, Jeri D McIntire, Gregory L Wallace, Frank N |
author_facet | Smiley-McDonald, Hope M Moore, Katherine N Heller, David C Ropero-Miller, Jeri D McIntire, Gregory L Wallace, Frank N |
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description | This study is a 6-month retrospective analysis of urine drug testing (UDT) data from a pain management population among specimens with clinician-ordered marijuana testing (N = 194 809). Descriptive statistics about the specimen positivity of clinician-ordered marijuana UDT are provided as well as other drug positivity. Specimens from men and adults aged 18 to 34 years had the highest prevalence rates of marijuana positivity. The prevalence of past-month marijuana use among a comparative national population was lower than the prevalence of positive marijuana tests in the UDT specimens by all characteristics. Among the specimens tested for illicit drugs and marijuana, 4.0% were positive for amphetamine, 2.8% were positive for cocaine, and 0.9% were positive for heroin. The most common prescription drugs listed were opioids (64.7%), benzodiazepines (20.5%), and antidepressants (19.9%). In sum, the findings reflect previous research showing high rates of marijuana use, illicit drug use, and prescription drug use in a pain management population. |
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spelling | pubmed-55623472017-11-02 Patterns of Marijuana Use in a 6-Month Pain Management Sample in the United States Smiley-McDonald, Hope M Moore, Katherine N Heller, David C Ropero-Miller, Jeri D McIntire, Gregory L Wallace, Frank N Subst Abuse Review This study is a 6-month retrospective analysis of urine drug testing (UDT) data from a pain management population among specimens with clinician-ordered marijuana testing (N = 194 809). Descriptive statistics about the specimen positivity of clinician-ordered marijuana UDT are provided as well as other drug positivity. Specimens from men and adults aged 18 to 34 years had the highest prevalence rates of marijuana positivity. The prevalence of past-month marijuana use among a comparative national population was lower than the prevalence of positive marijuana tests in the UDT specimens by all characteristics. Among the specimens tested for illicit drugs and marijuana, 4.0% were positive for amphetamine, 2.8% were positive for cocaine, and 0.9% were positive for heroin. The most common prescription drugs listed were opioids (64.7%), benzodiazepines (20.5%), and antidepressants (19.9%). In sum, the findings reflect previous research showing high rates of marijuana use, illicit drug use, and prescription drug use in a pain management population. SAGE Publications 2017-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5562347/ /pubmed/29104427 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1178221817724783 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Review Smiley-McDonald, Hope M Moore, Katherine N Heller, David C Ropero-Miller, Jeri D McIntire, Gregory L Wallace, Frank N Patterns of Marijuana Use in a 6-Month Pain Management Sample in the United States |
title | Patterns of Marijuana Use in a 6-Month Pain Management Sample in the United States |
title_full | Patterns of Marijuana Use in a 6-Month Pain Management Sample in the United States |
title_fullStr | Patterns of Marijuana Use in a 6-Month Pain Management Sample in the United States |
title_full_unstemmed | Patterns of Marijuana Use in a 6-Month Pain Management Sample in the United States |
title_short | Patterns of Marijuana Use in a 6-Month Pain Management Sample in the United States |
title_sort | patterns of marijuana use in a 6-month pain management sample in the united states |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5562347/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29104427 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1178221817724783 |
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