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| Title |
“Nonmedical” prescription opioid use in North America: a call for priority action
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, December 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1747-597x-8-39 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Pauline Voon, Thomas Kerr |
| Abstract |
Nearly four years after the United States Congress heralded a "decade of pain control and research", chronic pain remains a mounting public health concern worldwide. The escalating prevalence of chronic pain in recent years has been paralleled by a rise in prescription opioid availability, misuse, and associated human and social costs. However, national monitoring surveys in the U.S. and Canada currently fail to differentiate between prescription opioid misuse for the purposes of euphoria versus pain or withdrawal management. Furthermore, there is a lack of evidence-based guidelines for pain management among high-risk individuals, and a glaring lack of education for practitioners in the areas of pain and addiction medicine. Herein we propose multiple avenues for intervention and research in order to mitigate the individual, social and structural problems related to undertreated pain and prescription opioid misuse. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 48 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 11 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 14% |
| Other | 4 | 8% |
| Other | 6 | 12% |
| Unknown | 6 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 26% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 20% |
| Psychology | 9 | 18% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 4 | 8% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 8% |
| Unknown | 9 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 November 2014.
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