Prescription Drug Abuse: Annotated Bibliography

Prescription Drug Abuse
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Part I: Annotated Bibliography
Introduction
Research is an exciting section in academic work or scholarly work. It is often essential to use credible sources to be authentic and qualify as a source of information and resource for current and future use. Various opinions and results exist on prescription drug abuse, but we can only accept opinions and results accompanied by credible evidence to the claims. However, the sources' credibility is determined by further observing the book source, article, and the authors. The study on prescription drug abuse is only credible if credible information sources support it.
Article #1 Grecu, A. M., Dave, D. M., & Saffer, H. (2018). Mandatory Access Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Prescription Drug Abuse. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. doi:10.1002/pam.22098
This article researched and estimated the effects of prescription drug monitoring programs, PDMP, whose key mandate targets access to Rx drugs' nonmedical use. Grecu et al. (2018) based the study on the objective of drug abuse indicators prescribed by the substance abuse, treatment admissions, and the deaths linked to the Rx drug. The estimate did not show any tangible effect of implementing an operational PDMP. However, the study found that compulsory access provisions that raised the utilization rates of the PDMP by demanding providers to question the PDMP before prescribing a controlled drug showed a high relationship to the reduction in Rx drug abuse. This article is important to my research because it deals with prescription drug abuse and includes the role of the PDMP.
Article #2 Randy Wykoff, MD, M. T., & Egen, O. (2018). The 12 P's of the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic. American journal of public health, 108(9), 1124-1125.
This article provides a political interpretation of drug abuse prescription. The 2016 political alignments show that 70 percent of Republican regions registered a higher percentage of opioid abuse. Still, Randy and Egen (2018) assert a more complex reason for drug abuse than political affiliations. However, they noted a significant regional variation in opioid drug abuse. The article also asserts that the labor force participation reduced in counties where more opioids were prescribed. This article will be instrumental in my study in linking political activities and economic movements in prescription drug abuse.
Article #3 Shupp, R., Loveridge, S., Skidmore, M., Green, B., & Albrecht, D. (2020). Recognition and stigma of prescription drug abuse disorder: personal and community determinants. BMC Public Health, 20(1). doi:10.1186/s12889-020-09063-z
This journal sought to improve the understanding of stigma associated with prescription drug abuse and its symptom recognition. Shupp et al. (2020) used the logit estimation method to analyze a sample of 631 obtained randomly through an online survey. The result showed that most people who reported to have encountered prescription drug abuse could not identify the condition and were at a high risk of stigmatization. Females were more likely to identify prescription d...