Titre : | Doctor shopping for methylphenidate as a proxy for misuse and potential abuse in the 67 million inhabitants in France (2021) |
Auteurs : | T. SOEIRO ; E. FRAUGER ; V. PRADEL ; J. MICALLEF |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | Fundamental and Clinical Pharmacology (Vol.35, n°4, August 2021) |
Article en page(s) : | 751-761 |
Note générale : | Editorial : Rolland B. Doctor shopping for methylphenidate as a proxy for misuse and potential abuse in the 67 million inhabitants in France. Fundamental and Clinical Pharmacology, 2021, Vol. 35, n° 4, p. 749-750. https://doi.org/10.1111/fcp.12675 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus géographique FRANCEThésaurus mots-clés MEDICAMENTS ; METHYLPHENIDATE ; MESUSAGE ; ABUS ; PRESCRIPTION MEDICALE ; ETUDE TRANSVERSALE ; BASE DE DONNEES |
Résumé : | Doctor shopping enables subjects to receive more than the prescribed dose out of any medical management, which suggests a search for high doses and makes doctor shopping a relevant proxy for misuse and potential abuse. Therefore, this study aimed to identify and characterize profiles of subjects with doctor-shopping behavior for methylphenidate in the entire French population. This study is a cross-sectional study of doctor-shopping behavior for methylphenidate in France, in 2016, using the Système national des données de santé, and accounting for overlapping prescriptions. Subjects who obtained >840 mg by doctor shopping were defined as subjects with heavy doctor-shopping behavior, and subjects who obtained >0 mg and |
Domaine : | Autres substances / Other substances |
Refs biblio. : | 49 |
Affiliation : | Aix-Marseille Université, Inserm, UMR 1106, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille, Service de Pharmacologie Clinique, Centre d'Évaluation et d'Information sur la Pharmacodépendance - Addictovigilance, Marseille, France |
Lien : | https://doi.org/10.1111/fcp.12612 |
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