A Web-Based Program to Prevent Prescription Drug Abuse

描述（由研究者提供）：处方药是改善许多人健康和福祉的有效方法。然而，许多病人没有得到适当的检查和预防滥用处方药的教育指导。这个问题的关键是，如镇静剂，镇静剂，镇痛剂和兴奋剂等药物可能会导致药物滥用，依赖和成瘾，如果管理不当。国家药物滥用研究所最近指出，滥用处方药的情况正在上升，老年人、青少年和妇女似乎越来越受到关注。目前项目的目的是开发和测试一个创新的基于网络的教育方案，旨在防止妇女滥用处方药。该计划将包含关于安全使用有滥用可能的药物和替代药物的重要信息。在该项目的第一阶段，将制定原型结构和内容，并与职业妇女重点群体进行测试。在第二阶段，该计划将扩大，实地测试，修订，并准备向公司和管理式医疗组织营销。 目前有一个针对妇女的互动式多媒体方案，解决处方药使用和滥用问题。这样一个计划是一个非常需要的工具，应该有很大的吸引力，希望为他们的员工提供信息，可以减少他们的风险，药物滥用和提高士气和生产力的工作公司。管理式护理组织也应该对一个可以帮助降低所有年龄段妇女处方药误用和滥用成本的计划感兴趣。

DESCRIPTION (provided by investigator): Prescription medications are an effective way to bring improvements in the health and well being of many people. Many patients, however, fail to receive proper screening and educational instruction on the prevention of prescription drug abuse. Critical to this issue is the fact that medications such as tranquilizers, sedatives, analgesics, and stimulants may lead to drug misuse, dependence, and addiction if not administered and managed properly. The National Institute on Drug Abuse recently noted that the abuse of prescription medications is on the rise and there appears to be increased concern for older adults, adolescents, and women. The purpose of the current project is to develop and test an innovative web-based educational program designed to prevent prescription drug abuse among women. The program will contain important information on the safe use of medications with abuse potential and on alternatives to taking medications. During Phase I of the project, the prototype structure and content will be developed and tested with focus groups of working women. In Phase II, the program will be expanded, field-tested, revised, and prepared for marketing to corporations and managed care organizations. There is currently a clear tack of an interactive, multimedia program for women addressing the issue of prescription drug use and abuse. Such a program is a much needed tool that should have substantial appeal to corporations wishing to provide their employees with information that can decrease their risk to drug misuse and increase morale and productivity at work. Managed care organizations should also be interested in a program that could help reduce the cost of prescription drug misuse and abuse in women of all ages.