Sri Lanka's response to prescribed drug misuse: is it enough?

A wide range of medications are being misused by people the world over and Sri Lanka is no exception. Reasons for this misuse are manyfold. Regulatory bodies, prescribers, dispensers, as well as the general public, have significant roles to play in mitigating the misuse of prescribed medications and...

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Autores principales: Hapangama, Aruni, Kuruppuarachchi, K. A. L. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2023
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Country Profile
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9909435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36812038
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2021.54
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spelling pubmed-99094352023-02-14 Sri Lanka's response to prescribed drug misuse: is it enough? Hapangama, Aruni Kuruppuarachchi, K. A. L. A. BJPsych Int Country Profile A wide range of medications are being misused by people the world over and Sri Lanka is no exception. Reasons for this misuse are manyfold. Regulatory bodies, prescribers, dispensers, as well as the general public, have significant roles to play in mitigating the misuse of prescribed medications and their harmful consequences. Cambridge University Press 2023-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9909435/ /pubmed/36812038 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2021.54 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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