Prescription Drug Abuse: Annotated Bibliography

Prescription Drug Abuse
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Part I: Annotated Bibliography
Introduction
Research is an exciting section in academic work or scholarly work. It is often essential to use credible sources to be authentic and qualify as a source of information and resource for current and future use. Various opinions and results exist on prescription drug abuse, but we can only accept opinions and results accompanied by credible evidence to the claims. However, the sources' credibility is determined by further observing the book source, article, and the authors. The study on prescription drug abuse is only credible if credible information sources support it.
Article #1 Grecu, A. M., Dave, D. M., & Saffer, H. (2018). Mandatory Access Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Prescription Drug Abuse. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. doi:10.1002/pam.22098
This article researched and estimated the effects of prescription drug monitoring programs, PDMP, whose key mandate targets access to Rx drugs' nonmedical use. Grecu et al. (2018) based the study on the objective of drug abuse indicators prescribed by the substance abuse, treatment admissions, and the deaths linked to the Rx drug. The estimate did not show any tangible effect of implementing an operational PDMP. However, the study found that compulsory access provisions that raised the utilization rates of the PDMP by demanding providers to question the PDMP before prescribing a controlled drug showed a high relationship to the reduction in Rx drug abuse. This article is important to my research because it deals with prescription drug abuse and includes the role of the PDMP.
Article #2 Randy Wykoff, MD, M. T., & Egen, O. (2018). The 12 P's of the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic. American journal of public health, 108(9), 1124-1125.
This article provides a political interpretation of drug abuse prescription. The 2016 political alignments show that 70 percent of Republican regions registered a higher percentage of opioid abuse. Still, Randy and Egen (2018) assert a more complex reason for drug abuse than political affiliations. However, they noted a significant regional variation in opioid drug abuse. The article also asserts that the labor force participation reduced in counties where more opioids were prescribed. This article will be instrumental in my study in linking political activities and economic movements in prescription drug abuse.
Article #3 Shupp, R., Loveridge, S., Skidmore, M., Green, B., & Albrecht, D. (2020). Recognition and stigma of prescription drug abuse disorder: personal and community determinants. BMC Public Health, 20(1). doi:10.1186/s12889-020-09063-z
This journal sought to improve the understanding of stigma associated with prescription drug abuse and its symptom recognition. Shupp et al. (2020) used the logit estimation method to analyze a sample of 631 obtained randomly through an online survey. The result showed that most people who reported to have encountered prescription drug abuse could not identify the condition and were at a high risk of stigmatization. Females were more likely to identify prescription drug abuse than men, while older respondents of 55 years and above identified prescription drug abuse more correctly than the young averaging 34 years old. The younger population is also likely to face more stigmatization compared to the old. The study recommended public education and outreach to help those affected. This journal is useful for my study because it explores prescription drug abuse and compares it with all the demography and stigma.
Article #4 Compton, W. M., & Volkow, N. D. (2006). Abuse of prescription drugs and the risk of addiction. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 83, S4–S7. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2005.10.020
The article investigated the best practices to prevent and treat adolescence besides developing strategies to curb the diversion and abuse of any medication meant for treatment purposes. Campton and Volkow (2006) based their study in the US due to the rising number of prescription drug abuse cases in the country. The study will help inform my work because it is based in a country where prescription drug practice is rampant.
Article #5 Lev, R., Lee, O., Petro, S., Lucas, J., Castillo, E. M., Vilke, G. M., & Coyne, C. J. (2016). Who is prescribing controlled medications to patients who die of prescription drug abuse?. The American journal of emergency medicine, 34(1), 30-35.
The journal investigated medical examination reports of prescription of drugs linked to the deaths in San Diego in 2013. Lev et al. (2016) performed a prescription drug monitoring program on each case to confirm the physician who prescribed the doses to the casualties. They found out that 4.5 percent of physicians in the county prescribed killer drugs to patients. The pain prescribers gave the highest number of killer prescriptions while the emergency physicians were the least in the sequence. They concluded that emergency physicians contribute the least to prescription drugs that cause deaths, although they contributed significantly to physicians. The journal will help develop my study by learning the prescribing nature and trends of different physicians.
Article #6 Li, B. T., Moukaddam, N., Parks, K. D., & Shah, A. A. (2018). When Treatment Turns to Addiction: Emerging Issues in Over-the-Counter and Prescription Drug Abuse. Psychiatric Annals, 48(8), 379-383.
This article discusses quetiapine, gabapentin, bupropion, loperamide, zolpidem, and promethazine drugs and their general knowledge of their misuse, including any addictive characteristics. Much is known about the correct prescription of these medicines, but more research is needed to ascertain their increasing misuse. Li et al. (2018) intended to raise clinical awareness of prescription drug abuse's medical consequences. This research is important to my study because it explores the root cause of prescription drug abuse in the drugs listed above.
Article #7 McCabe, S. E., Cranford, J. A., & West, B. T. (2008). Trends in prescription drug abuse and dependence, co-occurrence with other substance use disorders, and treatment utilization: results from two national surveys. Addictive behaviors, 33(10), 1297-1305.
The research analyzed trends in prescription drug abuse and dependence. It also aimed to determine the co-occurrence with the use and abuse of other substances and the treatment utilization among the people affected by prescription drug abuse. McCabe et al. (2008) found out that the abuse of opioid drugs increased from 1991 to 2001. This shows that it is important to keep close monitoring due to the increase in drug abuse dependence, causing a worrying trend. This will help develop the argument in my study as it tries to explain the increase in prescription drug abuse.
Article #8 Hwang, C. S., Turner, L. W., Kruszewski, S. P., Kolodny, A., & Alexander, G. C. (2015). Prescription drug abuse: a national survey of primary care physicians. JAMA internal medicine, 175(2), 302-304.
Hwang et al. (2015) used the Dillman approach to carry out a thousand physician participants' mail survey. They aimed to examine physicians' beliefs and self-reported practices concerning prescription and the use of the opioid drug. More than half of the sampled physicians reported prescription drug abuse as a big to moderate proble...