Titre : | Methadone-associated overdose deaths. Factors contributing to increased deaths and efforts to prevent them |
Auteurs : | United States General Accounting Office |
Type de document : | Rapport |
Mention d'édition : | GAO-09-341 |
Editeur : | Washington, DC : General Accounting Office (GAO), 2009 |
Format : | 55 p. |
Note générale : | Washington, GAO, 2009, 55 p. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | SAN (Santé publique / Public health) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés METHADONE ; SURDOSE ; MORTALITE ; PREVENTION ; PRESCRIPTION MEDICALE ; REGLEMENTATION ; DISTRIBUTION CONTROLEE ; ABUSThésaurus géographique ETATS-UNIS |
Résumé : | Prescription drug abuse is a growing public health problem. In particular, methadone-associated overdose deaths - those in which methadone may have caused or contributed to the death - have risen sharply. Before the late 1990s, methadone was used mainly to treat opioid addiction but has since been increasingly prescribed to manage pain. Taken too often, in too high a dose, or with other drugs or alcohol, methadone can cause serious side effects and death. Methadone-associated overdose deaths can occur under several different scenarios, including improper dosing levels by practitioners, misuse by patients who may combine methadone with other drugs, or abuse - using the drug for nontherapeutic purposes. This report examines the regulation of methadone, factors that have contributed to the increase in methadone-associated overdose deaths, and steps taken to prevent methadone-associated overdose deaths. (Editor' s abstract) |
Domaine : | Autres substances / Other substances |
Affiliation : | Etats-Unis. United States. |
Centre Emetteur : | 13 OFDT |
Cote : | E00849 |
Lien : | http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-341 |
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