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Community Perceptions of Prescription Drug Abuse in Eastern Kentucky.
<p>Personal interviews exploring attitudes toward prescription drug abuse were completed by 17 residents over 18 years of age from Kentucky's Pike and Letcher counties. In respect to prescription drug abuse research nationwide, much research has been conducted in eastern Kentucky; however, there …
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America's Hidden and Ignored Drug Problem: Prescription Drug Abuse
… which started in the very late 1990's, is prescription drug abuse. This new epidemic not only affects the medical industry, but the criminal justice community as well. Further, in terms of prescription narcotics, primary research and media coverage into this topic revealed that numerous …
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Essays on prescription drug benefits in Medicare managed care
… thesis, I estimate a structural demand model for prescription drug benefits by Medicare beneficiaries using data from the Medicare HMO program. I then use the utility parameter estimates to explore other questions of interest relating to the elderly's demand for prescription drug benefits. In …
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Epidemiology of prescription drug abuse in Illinois high school students
Prescription drug abuse has reached epidemic proportions and trends indicate that the number of adolescents who abuse these drugs will continue to increase. Every adolescent appear to be at risk and this epidemic does not appear to be defined by known risk profiles for substance abuse. Nearly one …
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Prescription drug advertisements as fantasies: A cultural critique using a visualization model
Foss' (1994) rhetorical schema for the evaluation of visual images in conjunction with elements of Bormann's (1982) theories on fantasy theme analysis provides a framework for the creation of the included Visualization model which enables the examination of prevalent advertising images. The …
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An Examination of Patterns and Trends of Prescription Drug Abuse Among Adolescents.
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine prescription drug abuse among the adolescent population and analyze factors that may contribute to or influence adolescent drug abuse. This study examined 3 waves of a secondary data set from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration …
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Norms, attitudes, perceptions, and intentions for benzodiazepine prescription drug abuse among adolescents
… measured to predict intentions to abuse such drugs. Similar measures for alcohol and marijuana also were assessed for comparison purposes. A survey was administered to 371 students in 8<sup>th</sup>, 10<sup>th</sup>, and 12<sup>th</sup> grades from the Chelsea School District (CSD) in March …
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A Need for Government Intervention? Prescription Drug Prices and Retail Mark-ups
The high cost of prescription drugs has been an issue that numerous federal agencies have examined for years. In 2003, Congress passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, better known as Medicare Part D, in an effort to ease the burden of skyrocketing prescription …
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Klonopin Collectifs, the “Charms” of Diverted Pharmaceuticals and Other Pleasures of Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use
… research conducted on non-medical prescription drug use assumes pharmaceuticals to have fixed, inherent euphorigenic qualities. Quantitative analysis of substance abuse depends on drugs acting predictably. However, this conception of pharmaceuticals has failed to account for the …
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Klonopin Collectifs, the “Charms” of Diverted Pharmaceuticals and Other Pleasures of Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use
… research conducted on non-medical prescription drug use assumes pharmaceuticals to have fixed, inherent euphorigenic qualities. Quantitative analysis of substance abuse depends on drugs acting predictably. However, this conception of pharmaceuticals has failed to account for the …
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Consumer attitudes towards medical information: an exploratory study of direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising in Australia
… particularly, from Direct-To-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising (DTCA) in Australia. Nowadays, consumers require more information about prescription medicines that they may be interested in. Further, a modern information technology, such as the Internet, provides a great opportunity …
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Evaluation of a Prescription Drug Pay-for-Performance Program: Impact on Prescribing Trends, Budget, and Patient Outcomes
… has suggested increased cost-sharing for prescription drugs is associated with lower adherence and higher utilization of other health care services. Therefore, one potential way to lower overall health care costs is to optimize prescription drug expenditures by promoting an increased …
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Perceived readability, understandability, and hazardousness of prescription drug warning labels as a function of icon, font size, and color
Current standards on warning design recommend including icons on various product labels to increase saliency and reinforce meaning. In order to examine if icons are understandable and salient, Experiment 1 consisted of a sample of 489 undergraduate students rating 43 pharmaceutical pictorials with …
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The Influence of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising: Who Will Talk to Their Doctor as A Result of Prescription Drug Advertisement?
… Impact of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs, July 2001- January 2002", conducted by researchers from Harvard Medical School. Participants (n = 3000) were interviewed by telephone. We constructed a conceptual framework consisting of outcomes (3 types of physician visits), …
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The effects of mortality-salience inducing direct-to-consumer prescription drug commercials on viewer attitude toward high and low status brands
… to understand whether or not direct-to-consumer prescription drug ads (DTC ads) made people think about their own death (referred to as mortality salience) and what effects these thoughts had on people's opinions of brands of varying status. Study 1 used a free-writing questionnaire to collect …
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New value chain in the precription drug industry : a mandate to change
… thesis focuses on an analysis of strategy in the prescription drug industry. For prescription drug companies, the ultimate consumers are patients, but intermediate customers are physicians. Because of regulations and the particular decision making process of choosing pharmaceuticals, the marketing …
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An examination of the effects of medicare part d on racial/ethnic disparities
… Part D has reduced racial/ethnic disparities in prescription drug utilization and spending among Medicare seniors. Using nationally representative data on White, African-American, and Hispanic Medicare seniors from the 2002-2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, this dissertation analyzes eight …
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Burden Of Depression Among Individuals With Irritable Bowel Syndrome(IBS) In The Medicaid Population
… “inpatient, outpatient, emergency room, and prescription drug. Generalized linear models were used to assess the impact of comorbid depression on healthcare utilization and costs. Results: the period prevalence of IBS in the population was 4.4 per 1,000 Medicaid beneficiaries. The period …
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Medicare Part D Coverage Gap: Who Falls In and What Beneficiaries Do to Avoid Entry
… seniors the benefit of government subsidized prescription drug coverage. The baby boomer generation is expected to retire at a rate of 10,000 per day for the next nineteen years. Research into health care and prescription drug coverage for this aging population is becoming relevant due to a …
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Evaluating the Patient-Centeredness of Medicare Part D
The implementation of the Medicare prescription drug benefit: "Part D") has brought about many changes in the provision of prescription medications to adults with serious mental illness. Existing research on the impact of Part D on this population, for the most part, examines the benefit from the …
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