Research Catalog

Title

Preventing, identifying, and treating prescription drug misuse among active-duty service members / Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Sarah B. Hunter, Allison J. Ober, Karen Chan Osilla, Raffaele Vardavas, Janice C. Blanchard, David DeVries, Emmanuel F. Drabo, Kristin J. Leuschner, Warren Stewart, Jennifer Walters.

Author

Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo, 1968-

Publication

• Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2016]
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Hunter, Sarah B., 1968-
• Ober, Allison J.
• Osilla, Karen Chan
• Vardavas, Raffaele
• Blanchard, Janice C.
• DeVries, David (Writer on prescription drugs)
• Drabo, Emmanuel F.
• Leuschner, Kristin
• Stewart, Warren (Writer on prescription drugs)
• Walters, Jennifer
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
• United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense, sponsoring body.

Description

xxix, 148 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Prescription drug misuse (PDM) is of critical concern for the military because of its potential impact on military readiness, the health and well-being of military personnel, and associated health care costs. The purpose of this report is to summarize insights gleaned from a series of activities that the RAND Corporation undertook for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness to address this important health and military readiness issue. The authors completed a review of U.S. Department of Defense policies and a comprehensive literature review of clinical guidelines and the empirical literature on the prevention and treatment of PDM and conducted individual face-to-face interviews with 66 health and behavioral health care providers at nine medical treatment facilities across three regions within the contiguous United States to identify best practices in the prevention, identification, and treatment of PDM and the extent to which those practices are known and followed. The report also presents the framework of an analytic tool that, once informed by data available to the military but not available to the authors, can assist the military in predicting future trends in PDM based on current demographics of active-duty service members and rates of injury and prescribing of prescription drugs. The findings from this work led the authors to formulate a set of key insights that they believe might improve the rapid identification and treatment of service members dealing with PDM, thereby improving future force readiness"--

Subject

• United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness
• Medication abuse > United States
• Soldiers > Drug use > United States
• Prescription Drug Misuse
• Military Personnel
• United States > Drug use
• United States > Operational readiness
• United States

Genre/Form

Review

Note

• "RR-1345-OSD"--Cover page 4.
• At head of title: RAND National Defense Research Institute.
• "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-148).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Figures and tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review of military and civilian practices and guidelines for prescription drug misuse -- U.S. Department of Defense policies -- Clinical practice guidelines, consensus statements, and published systematic reviews -- Systematic review of original studies in the research literature -- Conclusions -- 3. Designing a tool to assist in identifying prescription drug misuse among current and future active-duty service members -- 4. Our qualitative assessment of military health providers' views on prescription drug misuse -- Introduction -- Methods -- Limitations of our approach -- Findings -- 5. Recommendations and conclusions -- Appendixes -- Bibliography.

ISBN

• 9780833096678
• 0833096672

OCLC

967501324

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library