4005.0 Prescription Drug Abuse: Populations at Risk

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 8:30 AM
Oral
This session examines correlates of prescription drug abuse in a variety of populations, including youth, persons over 50 years of age, and illicit substance abusers. Implications for prescribing practice policy will be discussed.
Session Objectives: Describe the correlates of prescription drug abuse in various population subgroups. Discuss changes in prescribing policy that can promote positive change.
Moderator:
Nicholas Reuter, MPH

8:30 AM
Association of recent initiation of nonmedical prescription opioid use and initiation of injection and heroin use in a national sample of drug users
Traci Green, PhD, Sarah Bowman, MPH, Marita Mann, BA and Josiah Rich, MD, MPH
8:31 AM
Prior Physician Medication and Subsequent Patterns of Drug Misuse in Young Adults
Karol Silva, MPH, Aleksandar Kecojevic, MPH, Ellen Iverson, MPH, Jennifer Jackson Bloom, MPH, Sheree M. Schrager, PhD and Stephen E. Lankenau, PhD
     
8:33 AM
Trends in prevalence and incidence of and factors associated with nonmedical use of prescription pain relievers among adults aged 50 or older in the United States
Beth Han, MD,PhD,MPH and Joe Gfroerer, BA
8:36 AM
Prescription drug misuse among young injection drug users: Findings from New York and Los Angeles
Stephen E. Lankenau, PhD, Aleksandar Kecojevic, MPH, Jennifer Jackson Bloom, MPH, Sheree M. Schrager, PhD, Karol Silva, MPH and Ellen Iverson, MPH

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Organized by: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
Endorsed by: Medical Care, Public Health Education and Health Promotion, Public Health Nursing

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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