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Article de Périodique
Opioid prescriptions soar. Increase in legitimate use as well as abuse (2007)
Auteur(s) :
B. M. KUEHN
Article en page(s) :
249-251
Domaine :
Autres substances / Other substances
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Discipline :
SAN (Santé publique / Public health)
Thésaurus mots-clés
MEDICAMENTS
;
ANTALGIQUES
;
PRESCRIPTION MEDICALE
;
ABUS
;
OPIOIDES
;
EVOLUTION
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Résumé :
Campaigns to make pain control a priority have succeeded in raising patient and physician awareness of the need for analgesics, and now opioid pain medications are among the most prescribed drugs in the United States. However, this positive trend has been shadowed by growing abuse of these powerful medications. This dichotomy is proving a persistent challenge for physicians, policy makers, and scientists trying to develop better strategies to thwart abuse while continuing to treat pain effectively. "We have two public health crises going on at the same time: one is undertreated pain and the other is prescription drug abuse," said Scott M. Fishman, MD, chief of the division of pain medicine at the University of California, Davis. "As we treat one of those problems and get doctors to treat more aggressively for pain, we're simultaneously seeing numbers go up related to prescription drug abuse and no one knows with any certainty if one is driving the other." (Extract of the publication)
Affiliation :
USA