The Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic
eBook - ePub

The Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic

Incidence, Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic

Incidence, Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

About this book

This overview of prescription drug abuse includes historical background, key concepts, and discussion of the prevalence of drug abuse, treatments, and policy issues implicated in ending the epidemic. Prescription opioid medication abuse has been declared a national crisis by experts in medicine, substance use, public health, and pain management, culminating in a declaration made by the President of the United States that opioid misuse and abuse is a national health emergency. In this comprehensive text, expert scholars analyze and address a wide range of issues in, obstacles to, and potential solutions for this emergency, which caused more than 50, 000 deaths in 2016 alone. It covers a variety of topics related to prescription misuse from both clinical and academic perspectives. After an opening containing background material on the most commonly misused medications, chapters examine subgroups engaged in misuse and special medical environments where misuse issues are key. They then cover U.S. policy, perspectives outside the U.S., and theories that may explain the misuse phenomena. This book will serve as a resource for students and professionals in fields related to prescription drug abuse—including psychology, sociology, medicine, and public policy—and is accessible to individuals not trained in these fields.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781440852640
eBook ISBN
9798216131823
Edition
1
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Addiction in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Chapter 1 Introduction
  7. Chapter 2 Opioids
  8. Chapter 3 Stimulants
  9. Chapter 4 Benzodiazepines
  10. Chapter 5 Misuse and Abuse of Over-the-Counter Medicines
  11. Chapter 6 Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use in Adolescents and Young Adults
  12. Chapter 7 Misuse of Prescription Drugs among Young Adults
  13. Chapter 8 Prescription Drug Misuse in Older Adults
  14. Chapter 9 Opioids: Misuse and Guideline-Concordant Use in Pain Management
  15. Chapter 10 Opioids in the Emergency Setting
  16. Chapter 11 Regulation of Opioid Medications in the United States
  17. Chapter 12 Promoting Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs for Population Health: Research and Policy Implications
  18. Chapter 13 Harm Reduction Approaches to Opioids
  19. Chapter 14 A Comparison of Recent Trends in Prescription Drug Misuse in the United States and the United Kingdom
  20. Chapter 15 Using Health Behavior Theory to Understand Prescription Drug Misuse
  21. Chapter 16 Understanding Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use: The Importance of Criminological Theory
  22. Chapter 17 Conclusions
  23. About the Editor and Contributors
  24. Index