Prescription Drug Abuse in the United States of America and a Proposed Multilevel Intervention Based on Social Ecological Model
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 11
Abstract
With a five-fold increase in the prevalence of prescription drug abuse, it is a raising epidemic in the United States of America. Opioids, benzodiazepines, amphetamines, and dextroamphetamine are commonly abused drugs. Public taxpayers in the states pay about $72 billion because of economic burden caused by prescription drug abuse. There have been interventions in the past but with limited success. This paper sheds lights on the prevalence, current prevention programs, and a proposed multilevel intervention based social ecological model. To tackle the problem of prescription drug abuse further studies based on multilevel interventions warranted.
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Haritha Vardhini Katragadda, Jay Krishna Katragadda
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