Opioid misuse initiation: Implications for intervention
| Autor: | Glenn Sterner, Ashton M. Verdery, Shannon M. Monnat, Khary K. Rigg, Katherine McLean |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry 030508 substance abuse Medicine (miscellaneous) Poison control Human factors and ergonomics General Medicine Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Article Heroin 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology 0302 clinical medicine Intervention (counseling) Injury prevention medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Medical prescription 0305 other medical science Psychiatry business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | J Addict Dis |
| ISSN: | 1545-0848 |
| Popis: | The nonmedical use of opioids (e.g., prescription painkillers and heroin) has drastically increased over the past two decades. Despite the popular media narrative suggesting initiation often begins with misused personal prescriptions, there has been surprisingly little investigation into how persons initiate their misuse of opioids. Inattention to initiation patterns is an important limitation because understandings of onset directly inform prevention and treatment interventions. The primary goals of this study, therefore, were to: (1) describe the age patterns of opioid misuse initiation, (2) identify the opioid most commonly used at initiation and the source of the initial opioids, and (3) explore the narrative accounts of the circumstances surrounding opioid misuse onset. Surveys ( |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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