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Drug abuser

Known as: Abuser, Drug, Drug Abusers, Drug Users 
People who take drugs for a non-therapeutic or non-medical effect. The drugs may be legal or illegal, but their use often results in adverse medical… 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
The Danish National Prescription Registry
Introduction: Individual-level data on all prescription drugs sold in Danish community pharmacies has since 1994 been recorded in… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Experiential Avoidance and Behavioral Disorders: A Functional Dimensional Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment
Syndromal classification is a well-developed diagnostic system but has failed to deliver on its promise of the identification of… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Evaluating medication effects outside of clinical trials: new-user designs.
  • W. Ray
  • American Journal of Epidemiology
  • 2003
  • Corpus ID: 12300944
Recent clinical trials demonstrating that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) does not prevent coronary heart disease in women have… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Recent patterns of medication use in the ambulatory adult population of the United States: the Slone survey.
CONTEXT Data on the range of prescription and over-the-counter drug use in the United States are not available. OBJECTIVE To… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Current concepts in the management of Helicobacter pylori infection—The Maastricht 2‐2000 Consensus Report
Significant progress and new insights have been gained in the 4 years since the first Maastricht Consensus Report, necessitating… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Addiction, Dopamine, and the Molecular Mechanisms of Memory
Review
1998
Review
1998
Adolescent sexual behavior, drug use, and violence: increased reporting with computer survey technology.
Surveys of risk behaviors have been hobbled by their reliance on respondents to report accurately about engaging in behaviors… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
Long-term follow-up results of a randomized drug abuse prevention trial in a white middle-class population.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the long-term efficacy of a school-based approach to drug abuse prevention. DESIGN Randomized trial… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
A prospective study of the risk of tuberculosis among intravenous drug users with human immunodeficiency virus infection.
To determine the risk of active tuberculosis associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, we prospectively… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
The South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS): a new instrument for the identification of pathological gamblers.
The South Oaks Gambling Screen is a 20-item questionnaire based on DSM-III criteria for pathological gambling. It may be self… 
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