Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
Data Sources Regarding The Nonmedical Use Of Pharmaceutical Opioids In The United States, Teresa D. Schmidt, Amanuel Zimam, Alexandra Nielsen, Wayne Wakeland
Data Sources Regarding The Nonmedical Use Of Pharmaceutical Opioids In The United States, Teresa D. Schmidt, Amanuel Zimam, Alexandra Nielsen, Wayne Wakeland
Systems Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Objective—Recent increases in the nonmedical use of pharmaceutical opioids and the adverse outcomes associated with them have stimulated a large amount of research and data collection on this public health problem. Systematic organization of the available data sources is needed to facilitate ongoing research, analysis, and evaluation. This work offers a systematic categorization of data sources regarding the nonmedical use of pharmaceutical opioids in the United States.
Methods—A list of keywords regarding the nonmedical use of pharmaceutical opioids was used to conduct systematic searches in PubMed®. Filtration of search results generated 92 peer-reviewed academic articles, published between January 1995 and …