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Sophia C. Mort – ProQuest LLC, 2020
More than 47,000 people died in 2017 due to opioid-involved overdoses. In addition, fatal overdoses from non-methadone synthetic opioids like fentanyl have risen dramatically over the past 7 years. The heavy flow of opioid-related overdoses in hospitals have pressured healthcare professionals to adapt to new treatment modalities while following…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Social Bias, Barriers, Patients
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Lankenau, Stephen; Kecojevic, Aleksandar; Silva, Karol – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2015
Objective: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) incidence has been increasing among young injection drug users (IDUs). This analysis examined whether the emerging practice of prescription opioid (PO) injection is associated with self-reported HCV among young IDUs. Methods: Young IDUs (n = 162) aged 18-25-years-old who indicated recent misuse of prescription…
Descriptors: Correlation, Drug Abuse, Communicable Diseases, Incidence
Jessica Drescher; Lily Steyer; Carrie Townley-Flores; Keith Humphreys – Grantee Submission, 2022
The potential spillover effects of the United States' opioid epidemic on children's educational outcomes have received surprisingly little attention from researchers. Accordingly, this study leverages national datasets of county-level opioid prescription rates and public school students' third- to eighth-grade academic achievement to provide the…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Academic Achievement, Educational Attainment, Incidence
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Parks, Kathleen A.; Levonyan-Radloff, Kristine; Przybyla, Sarahmona M.; Darrow, Sherri; Muraven, Mark; Hequembourg, Amy – Journal of American College Health, 2017
Objective: The purpose of the current study was to increase qualitative understanding of student motives for and consequences associated with nonmedical use of prescription drugs. Participants: Sixty-one students participated in eight focus groups between April and November 2013. Methods: Students described prescription drugs commonly used for…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Motivation, Drug Abuse
Johnston, Lloyd D.; Schulenberg, John E.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Miech, Richard A.; Patrick, Megan E. – Institute for Social Research, 2020
This occasional paper presents subgroup findings from the Monitoring the Future (MTF) study on levels of, and trends in, the use of a number of substances for nationally representative samples of high school graduates ages 19-30, "Monitoring the Future National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2018. Volume II, College Students & Adults…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Gender Differences, College Attendance, Geographic Regions
Tarlise N. Townsend – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation addresses several contemporary health challenges affecting the US population, drawing on methods and perspectives from health services research, social demography, and medical sociology. Paper 1 examines the pathways from educational attainment to difficulty with activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Educational Attainment, Disabilities, Age Differences
Suchman, Nancy E.; DeCoste, Cindy L. – ZERO TO THREE, 2018
New developments in the treatment of mothers and infants affected by opioid addiction point to the promising effects of interventions that adopt a developmental perspective, occur concurrently with addiction treatment, and target the parent-infant relationship as early as possible. In this article, the authors provide general guidelines for…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Drug Addiction, Addictive Behavior, Early Intervention
Johnston, Lloyd D.; Miech, Richard A.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E.; Patrick, Megan E. – Institute for Social Research, 2019
Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a long-term study of substance use and related factors among U.S. adolescents, college students, and adult high school graduates through age 60. It is conducted annually and supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. MTF findings identify emerging substance use problems, track substance use trends, and inform…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Adolescents, College Students, High School Graduates
Lindsey M. Nichols; Jonathan A. Pedroza; Christopher M. Fleming; Kaitlin M. O'Brien; Emily E. Tanner-Smith – Grantee Submission, 2021
Adolescent opioid misuse is a public health crisis, particularly among clinical populations of youth 15 with substance misuse histories. Given the negative and often lethal consequences associated with 16 opioid misuse among adolescents, it is essential to identify the risk and protective factors underlying 17 early opioid misuse to inform…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Narcotics, Adolescents, Risk Management
Johnston, Lloyd D.; Miech, Richard A.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E.; Patrick, Megan E. – Institute for Social Research, 2020
Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a long-term study of substance use and related factors among U.S. adolescents, college students, and adult high school graduates through age 60. It is conducted annually and supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. MTF findings identify emerging substance use problems, track substance use trends, and inform…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drug Abuse, College Students, Adults
Johnston, Lloyd D.; Schulenberg, John E.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Miech, Richard A.; Patrick, Megan E. – Institute for Social Research, 2018
This occasional paper presents subgroup findings from the Monitoring the Future (MTF) study on levels of, and trends in, the use of a number of substances for nationally representative samples of high school graduates ages 19-30. The data have been gathered in a series of follow-up surveys of representative subsamples of high school seniors who…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Drug Abuse, High School Graduates, Gender Differences
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Asadullin, Azat R.; Galeeva, Elena Kh.; Achmetova, Elvina A.; Nikolaev, Ivan V. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The urgency of this study has become vivid in the light of the growing problem of prevalence and use of new synthetic drug types. Lately there has been a tendency of expanding the range of psychologically active substances (PAS) used by addicts with the purpose of their illegal taking. The aim of this research is an attempt of systematizing and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cocaine, Narcotics, Drug Addiction
Casey, Christine G., Ed. – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020
The "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)" is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Articles included in the report are: (1) Overview and Methods for the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System--United States, 2019; (2) Condom and Contraceptive Use Among Sexually Active High School Students--Youth Risk…
Descriptors: Risk, Health Behavior, Sexuality, High School Students
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Ti, Lianlian; Hayashi, Kanna; Ti, Lianping; Kaplan, Karyn; Suwannawong, Paisan; Kerr, Thomas – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2017
Significant gaps between scientific evidence and policy have resulted in growing interest in the role that knowledge translation (KT) can play in informing evidence-based policy. The Mitsampan Community Research Project, in consultation with the local community of people who inject drugs, developed a comprehensive KT strategy that aimed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence Based Practice, Narcotics, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Alexander-Gorea, Trenika – ProQuest LLC, 2017
There is an identified problem with patients receiving suboptimal pain management at a hospice agency in the northwestern United States. At this agency, undertreatment of pain is prevalent. Evidence indicates that this may be a result of a lack of guidelines, education, and knowledge of appropriate prescribing. Known barriers to the correct…
Descriptors: Hospices (Terminal Care), Patients, Drug Use, Pain
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