"Prescription Drugs" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Drugs that cannot be sold legally without a prescription.
| Descriptor ID |
D055553
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D26.670
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Prescription Drugs".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Prescription Drugs".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Prescription Drugs" by people in this website by year, and whether "Prescription Drugs" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Prescription Drugs" by people in Profiles.
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Drazdowski TK, Kelly LM, Kliewer WL. Motivations for the nonmedical use of prescription drugs in a longitudinal national sample of young adults. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2020 07; 114:108013.
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Burke LG, Zhou X, Boyle KL, Orav EJ, Bernson D, Hood ME, Land T, Bharel M, Frakt AB. Trends in opioid use disorder and overdose among opioid-naive individuals receiving an opioid prescription in Massachusetts from 2011 to 2014. Addiction. 2020 03; 115(3):493-504.
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Singh S. The Safety of Generic Prescription Drugs in the United States. Drug Saf. 2018 Apr; 41(4):325-328.
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Marshall BDL, Green TC, Elston B, Yedinak JL, Hadland SE, Clark MA. The Effectiveness of Internet- and Field-Based Methods to Recruit Young Adults Who Use Prescription Opioids Nonmedically. Subst Use Misuse. 2018 08 24; 53(10):1688-1699.
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Fain KM, Yu T, Li T, Boyd CM, Singh S, Puhan MA. Evidence selection for a prescription drug's benefit-harm assessment: challenges and recommendations. J Clin Epidemiol. 2016 06; 74:151-7.
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Kroll-Desrosiers AR, Skanderson M, Bastian LA, Brandt CA, Haskell S, Kerns RD, Mattocks KM. Receipt of Prescription Opioids in a National Sample of Pregnant Veterans Receiving Veterans Health Administration Care. Womens Health Issues. 2016 Mar-Apr; 26(2):240-6.
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Kirsch DJ, Doerfler LA, Truong D. Mental health issues among college students: who gets referred for psychopharmacology evaluation? J Am Coll Health. 2015; 63(1):50-6.
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Fischer SH, Tjia J, Reed G, Peterson D, Gurwitz JH, Field TS. Factors associated with ordering laboratory monitoring of high-risk medications. J Gen Intern Med. 2014 Dec; 29(12):1589-98.
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McEnery-Stonelake M, Silvestri DL. Contact allergens in oral antihistamines. Dermatitis. 2014 Mar-Apr; 25(2):83-8.
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Pimentel CB, Lapane KL, Briesacher BA. Medicare part D and long-term care: a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence. Drugs Aging. 2013 Sep; 30(9):701-20.