Importance Opioids are frequently prescribed to children and adolescents after surgery.
Prescription opioid misuse is associated with high-risk behavior in youth. Evidence-based …

Prescription drug misuse (PDM), or medication use without a prescription or in ways not
intended by the prescriber, is a notable public health concern, especially in the United …

BACKGROUND Recent national data are lacking on the prevalence, safety, and prescribers
of opioid prescriptions dispensed to children and young adults aged 0 to 21 years …

Importance Recent information on the trends in past-year alcohol abstinence and marijuana
abstinence, co-use of alcohol and marijuana, alcohol use disorder, and marijuana use …

Importance Safe opioid prescribing practices are critical to mitigate the risk of prescription
opioid overdose in adolescents and young adults. However, studies that examine opioid …

Background To assess whether age of onset and duration of stimulant therapy for attention‐
deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are associated with cocaine, methamphetamine, and …

Pediatric postoperative opioid prescribing and the opioid cr... : Current Opinion in Pediatrics
Pediatric postoperative opioid prescribing and the opioid crisis : Current Opinion in Pediatrics …

Importance US adults born from 1965 to 1996 had high exposure to controlled medications,
yet little is known about how this exposure has affected them over time. Prescription drug …

Background Prescription drug misuse in older adults is a growing public health problem. It is
important to understand factors which predispose older adults to misuse prescription drugs …

The opioid crisis' pathways from first exposure onwards to eventual illnesses and fatalities
are multiple, intertwined and difficult to dissect. Here, we offer a multidisciplinary appraisal of …