This year at SAMIBC2020 we are pleased to announce another of our presenters, Madeleine LaPrad from Radford University. Madeleine will be presenting the paper Opioid Analgesics.
Presentation Abstract: Over the past few years, there has been an increase in prescription drug abuse. There are many different factors, but the main factor is the number of controlled medications being prescribed. The number of schedule 2 medications, such as Norco, Dilaudid, and OxyContin, has increased significantly from 2016 to 2018. Opioids are an extremely addictive drug. There are so many controlled prescriptions being prescribed today that there has become and extreme concern for addiction, overdoses, and death. It is extremely important that people are aware how many controlled medications are prescribed due to how addicting they can be. Based on the findings, we can see that there has been a concerning amount of schedule 2 medications being prescribed to patients. The types of literature that has been cited in this review are from scholarly sources. These scholarly sources explain just how concerning the number of controlled prescriptions being prescribed has become.
Join us in Nashville, Tennessee to see this great paper and many more March 19 – 21, 2020. For registration information visit www.samnational.org/conference.