Early Detection of Prescription Drug Abuse Using Doctor Shopping Monitoring From Claims Databases: Illustration From the Experience of the French Addictovigilance Network

Early Detection of Prescription Drug Abuse Using Doctor Shopping Monitoring From Claims Databases: Illustration From the Experience of the French Addictovigilance Network

Opioid analgesics and maintenance treatments, benzodiazepines and z-drugs, and other sedatives and stimulants are increasingly being abused to induce psychoactive effects or alter the effects of other drugs, eventually leading to dependence. Awareness of prescription drug abuse has been increasing i...

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Main Authors: Thomas Soeiro, Clémence Lacroix, Vincent Pradel, Maryse Lapeyre-Mestre, Joëlle Micallef
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
Subjects:
doctor shopping
prescription drug abuse
claims database
signals detection
addictovigilance
opioids
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.640120/full

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