The diversion of nonscheduled psychoactive prescription medications in the United States, 2002 to 2017

Systematic studies of the diversion of nonscheduled drugs, except for gabapentin, are not apparent. We searched diversion case reports of all other nonscheduled psychoactive prescription drugs in the Researched Abuse, Diversion, and Addiction‐Related Surveillance (RADARS) System.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

• Publication date

  2019-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1002/pds.4771PMID 30909323
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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