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Adolescents and young adults are most likely to abuse prescription medications. Yet prescription rates for controlled medications, or drugs the Drug Enforcement Administration deems as having the ...

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Influences on Knowledge and Attitudes About Prescription Drugs Among Teens Increasing accurate knowledge about the risks of prescription drug misuse is likely to decrease misuse. In fact, there is an ...

Historically, the receipt of prescription opioids has differed among racial groups in the United States. Research has not sufficiently explored the contribution of individual health systems to these ...

Comprehensive mandates for prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) require state-licensed prescribers and dispensers both to register with and to use the programs in most clinical circumstances.