Consumer habits and interests regarding non-prescription medications in Hungary

Major, Csilla; Vincze, Zoltán

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“…In 2005 Wazaify et al [15] investigated the general public's opinion and perceptions of OTC medicines, reporting that 76.4% of survey participants indicated painkillers as the ones always kept at home. In 2008 Major and Vincze [16] surveyed 1486 clients of Hungarian pharmacies asking what kind of OTC medicines could be abused: painkillers were the most frequently identified. Generally, the attempts to describe OTC medicine abuse have been made using a variety of methods and data sources.…”

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Correlates of Abusing and Misusing Over-the-Counter Pain Relievers Among Adult Population of Wrocław (Poland)

Wójta-Kempa¹,

Krzyżanowski²

2015

Adv Clin Exp Med

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“…In the research conducted among 295 clients of French pharmacies [16] it has been stated that the problem of misusing OTC pain relievers may concern 6.8-17% of users. The risk of abuse was higher in the case of paracetamol users.…”

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Correlates of Abusing and Misusing Over-the-Counter Pain Relievers Among Adult Population of Wrocław (Poland)

Wójta-Kempa¹,

Krzyżanowski²

2015

Adv Clin Exp Med

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“…Raising awareness, training pharmacists and over-coming barriers to treatment recommended. Albsoul-Younes et al (2010)To investigate abuse/misuse of prescription and non-prescription drugs in pharmacies in Jordan.Cross-sectional survey using structured questionnaire in 2005–2006.Random sample of 405 pharmacies in Jordan.N/AMost respondents (94.1%) suspected some abuse/misuse in their pharmacy, with decongestants, cough/cold products, benzodiazepines and antibiotics most commonly cited. Current controls are ineffective. Major and Vincze (2010)Survey self-reported use of OTC medicines and understanding of abuse potential amongst people who visit Hungarian pharmacies.Structured face-to-face questionnaire of 25 questions. No details given.…”

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“…It was also apparent that sampling influenced the emergent data, and, for example, studies that used pharmacists appeared to generate more detailed and varied descriptions of medicines that may be abused or misused (Hughes et al, 1999b; Matheson et al, 2002) compared to patient/customer/public accounts (Wazaify et al, 2005; Ajuoga et al, 2008; Major & Vincze, 2010), reflecting pharmacists’ knowledge of products and brands.…”

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Over-the-counter medicine abuse – a review of the literature

Cooper

2011

Journal of Substance Use

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Background:The sale of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines from pharmacies can help individuals self-manage symptoms. However, some OTC medicines may be abused, with addiction and harms being increasingly recognised. This review describes the current knowledge and understanding of OTC medicine abuse.Approach:Comprehensive search of international empirical and review literature between 1990 and 2011.Findings:OTC medicine abuse was identified in many countries and although implicated products varied, five key groups emerged: codeine-based (especially compound analgesic) medicines, cough products (particularly dextromethorphan), sedative antihistamines, decongestants and laxatives. No clear patterns relating to those affected or their experiences were identified and they may represent a hard-to-reach group, which coupled with heterogeneous data, makes estimating the scale of abuse problematic. Associated harms included direct physiological or psychological harm (e.g. opiate addiction), harm from another ingredient (e.g. ibuprofen-related gastric bleeding) and associated social and economic problems. Strategies and interventions included limiting supplies, raising public and professional awareness and using existing services and Internet support groups, although associated evaluations were lacking. Terminological variations were identified.Conclusions:OTC medicine abuse is a recognised problem internationally but is currently incompletely understood. Research is needed to quantify scale of abuse, evaluate interventions and capture individual experiences, to inform policy, regulation and interventions.

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“…The risk of abuse was higher in the case of paracetamol users. [14] In another study conducted among adults of Wroclaw, Poland, the "heavy users" more regularly bought medicines with ibuprofen -57%. [15] This was in compliance with the results reported in our study where paracetamol misused by almost 53.8% of the participants, which shows the highest and the next in line was ibuprofen (30.8%).…”

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Misuse of prescription analgesics and predictors of analgesic misuse among urban young adults of Sikkim, India

Dass

Khandelwal

2017

IJPBR

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Background: Non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are the most widely used analgesics and are available without prescription. NSAIDs can be acquired outside of pharmacies, the increase in NSAID consumption and the decrease in professional counseling (by physicians and pharmacists) may pose a serious risk for a substantial increase in adverse effect occurrences. Literature documents several factors affecting the possibility of analgesic misuse such as health status, the frequency and the manner of using analgesics, education and literacy skills (knowledge of safe usage, dosing, combining with other drugs etc.).Aim: The aim of this study was to recognize and describe the important predictive factors of the misuse of prescription analgesics among urban young adults of either sex in Sikkim, India. Methods: A pre devised validated case record form was administered to n=700 subjects. Data was statistically analyzed using Statistical Package of Social Sciences software. Results: Statistically significant results were obtained for pain in the past 30 days (χ 2 = 23.282, df=1, P<0.001), source of income (χ 2 = 7.326, df=2, P=0.026), smoking in the past 30 days (χ 2 = 14.430, df=2, P=0.001), body mass index (χ 2 = 140.224, df=2, P<0.001) and depression (χ 2 = 13.811, df=2, P=0.001).Conclusion: Several socio-demographic and lifestyle factors along with smoking in the past one month were associated with a continuous regular analgesic misuse of method was carried out utilizing ICH-guidelines. The described HPLC method method was successfully for the analysis of pharmaceutical formulations containing dosage form.

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Consumer habits and interests regarding non-prescription medications in Hungary

Cited by 28 publications

References 9 publications

Correlates of Abusing and Misusing Over-the-Counter Pain Relievers Among Adult Population of Wrocław (Poland)

Correlates of Abusing and Misusing Over-the-Counter Pain Relievers Among Adult Population of Wrocław (Poland)

Over-the-counter medicine abuse – a review of the literature

Misuse of prescription analgesics and predictors of analgesic misuse among urban young adults of Sikkim, India

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