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From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News:
Few studies have examined the relationship between alcohol consumption and nonmedical use of prescription drugs (NMUPD).
To characterize this relationship, researchers analyzed data from 43,093 adults who had participated in a national survey on alcohol and related conditions.
Of the overall sample, 65% drank and 3% took a prescription drug (opioid, sedative, tranquilizer, or stimulant) for a nonmedical reason in the past year.
Approximately 8% had an alcohol use disorder (AUD).
NMUPD was most common in subjects with past-year alcohol dependence (22%), followed by subjects with alcohol abuse only (8%), a heavy drinking episode* but no AUD (4%), neither a heavy drinking episode nor an AUD (2%), and abstinence (1%).
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Posted on December 6, 2006 08:07 PM
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