Economic Determinants of Prescription Drug Abuse

处方药滥用的经济决定因素

• 批准号: 7076913
• 负责人: JEREMY ARKES
• 金额: $ 9.15万
• 依托单位: RAND CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-06-10 至 2008-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7076913
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); adult human (21+); age difference; amphetamines; analgesia; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; drug abuse; employment /unemployment; gender difference; health economics; health insurance; human data; human population study; meta analysis; narcotics; occupations; public health; racial /ethnic difference; sedative /hypnotic; social change; socioeconomics; statistics /biometry; stimulant /agonist; tranquilizer

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Prescription drugs represent the second most abused class of drugs in the United States. Despite this, and despite the rapid growth of prescription drug abuse, the problem has largely been ignored in the substance-use research community. The medical community requires a better understanding of what contributes to the misuse of prescription drugs. We propose several analyses that will better inform us on the important characteristics of prescription drug abusers and some of the causes of prescription drug abuse. First, based on data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, we will produce a profile of who uses prescription drugs for non-medical purposes. We will create separate profiles according to age (12-17, 18-25, and 26+). Among the characteristics we will examine are: employment status, job characteristics, health, health coverage, and prior and current illicit drug use. We will examine how these profiles of users have changed over time and how they vary by race/ethnicity and gender. The second part of the proposed analysis is to determine whether prescription drug abuse is dependent on the prices of illicit drugs. This should inform us on whether prescription drugs are used as a complement to illicit drugs or perhaps a substitute when illicit drugs are too expensive or otherwise not available. We will determine whether the use of prescription drug for non-medical purposes is more responsive to the prices of other illicit drugs than are illicit drugs.

描述（由申请人提供）：处方药是美国第二大滥用类药物。尽管如此，尽管处方药滥用迅速增长，但在物质使用研究界，这个问题在很大程度上被忽略了。医学界需要更好地了解有助于滥用处方药的原因。我们提出了几项分析，可以更好地告知我们处方药滥用者的重要特征以及处方药滥用的一些原因。首先，根据全国药物使用和健康调查的数据，我们将产生谁用于非医疗目的的处方药。我们将根据年龄（12-17、18-25和26+）创建单独的概况。我们将研究的特征包括：就业状况，工作特征，健康，健康覆盖范围以及先前和当前的非法药物使用。我们将研究这些用户的这些概况如何随着时间的流逝而变化，以及它们如何随种族/种族和性别而变化。拟议的分析的第二部分是确定处方药滥用是否取决于非法药物的价格。这应该告知我们是否将处方药用作非法药物的补充，或者当非法药物太昂贵或没有其他情况时，也许是替代品。我们将确定是否将处方药用于非医学目的，对其他非法药物的价格更敏感，而不是非法药物。