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Complexities in understanding and addressing the serious public health issues related to the nonmedical use of prescription drugs

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Complexities in understanding and addressing the serious public health issues related to the nonmedical use of prescription drug [1]
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Thursday, September 1, 2016

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  • Studies [2]
  • Research [3]
  • Prescription [4]
  • epidemic [5]
  • 2017 Legislation [6]

A common theme among every article in this issue is the overlap be- tween NMUPD, excessive drinking, and marijuana and other forms of substance use. In every investigation, nonmedical users were observed to have a history of using alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, and other psycho- active substances. Kalyanam, Katsuki, Lanckriet, and Mackey (2017)
Kalyanam, J., Katsuki, T., Lanckriet, G., & Mackey, T. K. (2017). Exploring trends of non- medical use of prescription drugs and polydrug abuse in the Twittersphere using un- supervised machine learning. Addictive Behaviors, 65, 289–295. http://dx.doi.org/10 [7]. 1016/j.addbeh.2016.08.019.

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[2] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/study
[3] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/research
[4] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/prescription
[5] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/epidemic
[6] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/2017-legislation
[7] http://dx.doi.org/10