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Risk for Prescription Drug Abuse Varies by Gender

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04-28-2010, 12:50 PM	#1
NewsBot News Gatherer Community Support Team Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 38,696 My Mood:	Risk for Prescription Drug Abuse Varies by Gender (Psych Central News) A new study finds that gender plays a role in the risk for abuse of prescription pain medications.Harvard researchers studied 662 chronic non-cancer pain patients who take opioid pain medications. Each individual was surveyed with standard pain assessment questionnaires to examine rates and characteristics of problematic opioid use, profiles of risk factors for potential misuse, [...] Read the full article... From Psych Central News.

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