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Prescribing and dispensing for drug misusers in primary care

Methadone is the most widely prescribed drug for drug misuse across Scotland, but there is considerable variation between health board areas in how ...

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Prescribing and dispensing for drug misusers in primary care

Abstract. Background. Substitute prescribing has increased in Scotland, as in the rest of the UK. Both GPs and pharmacists are becoming increasingly ...

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23), define the parameters under which a physician may obtain a permit from the Maryland Board of Physicians to dispense prescription drugs to ...

Prescribing and dispensing for drug misusers in primary care

Substitute prescribing, the deliberate prescribing of drugs in a controlled manner to reduce the use of illicit drugs, has increased greatly in recent years ...

Improving Drug Prescribing in Primary Care: A Critical Analysis of ...

About 75 percent of all visits to office-based physicians result in at least one drug being prescribed (Cypress 1983); drug therapy is thus the most common form ...

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State Laws on Prescription Drug Misuse and Abuse. The United States is experiencing an unprecedented epidemic of prescription drug overdose deaths. The primary ...

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ABSTRACT This paper concerns pharmacists dispensing methadone to intoxicated clients, drawing on both questionnaire and focus-group data from a 1996 ...

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In addition to the tragic toll on families and communities, prescription drug abuse results in increased costs to the health care and the criminal justice ...

Drug Utilization Review | AMCP.org

Drug utilization review (DUR) is defined as an authorized, structured, ongoing review of prescribing, dispensing and use of medication.