Brief report: Characterization of marijuana use in us college students by state marijuana legalization status as reported to an online survey.

Background And Objective: US college student marijuana use is the highest since 1980. The objective was to investigate use characteristics among college students.

Methods: The RADARS® System College Survey Program surveyed individuals in a university, technical or online school.

Changes in misuse and abuse of prescription opioids following implementation of Extended-Release and Long-Acting Opioid Analgesic Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy.

Purpose: An unintended consequence of extended-release (ER) and long-acting (LA) prescription opioids is that these formulations can be more attractive to abusers than immediate-release (IR) formulations. The US Food and Drug Administration recognized these risks and approved the ER/LA Opioid Analgesic Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (ER/LA REMS), which has a goal of reducing opioid misuse and abuse and their associated consequences. The primary objective of this analysis is to determine whether ER/LA REMS implementation was associated with decreased reports of misuse and abuse.

Medical outcomes associated with prescription opioid abuse via oral and non-oral routes of administration.

Background: Prescription opioid abuse and misuse is a serious and growing public health issue. While the most common form of abuse is swallowing intact tablets/capsules, some abusers manipulate, or tamper with, these medications by altering the dosage form to allow for non-oral routes of administration (e.g.

Unintentional Pediatric Exposures to Marijuana in Colorado, 2009-2015.

Importance: As of 2015, almost half of US states allow medical marijuana, and 4 states allow recreational marijuana. To our knowledge, the effect of recreational marijuana on the pediatric population has not been evaluated.

Objective: To compare the incidence of pediatric marijuana exposures evaluated at a children's hospital and regional poison center (RPC) in Colorado before and after recreational marijuana legalization and to compare population rate trends of RPC cases for marijuana exposures with the rest of the United States.

Analysis of the Abuse and Diversion of the Buprenorphine Transdermal Delivery System.

Unlabelled: Prescription opioid abuse and diversion are major causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. The buprenorphine transdermal delivery system (BTDS) is indicated for the treatment of moderate to severe chronic pain and provides a continuous dose of 5, 7.5, 10, 15, or 20 μg/h buprenorphine for 7 days.