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药物类别。尽管如此，尽管处方药滥用迅速增长，但该问题在药物使用研究界基本上被忽视了。医学界需要更好地了解导致处方药滥用的原因。我们提出了几项分析，可以更好地让我们了解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，根据全国药物使用与健康调查的数据，我们将编制一份关于谁将处方药用于非医疗目的的概况。我们将根据年龄（12-17、18-25 和 26+）创建单独的个人资料。我们将检查的特征包括：就业状况、工作特征、健康状况、健康保险范围以及之前和当前的非法药物使用情况。我们将研究这些用户资料如何随着时间的推移而变化，以及它们如何因种族/民族和性别而变化。拟议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。这应该告诉我们处方药是否被用作非法药物的补充，或者当非法药物太昂贵或无法获得时可能被用作替代品。我们将确定非医疗目的使用处方药是否比非法药物更容易受到其他非法药物价格的影响。