Misuse of prescription medicines is as prevalent as the use of recreational drugs and novel psychoactive substances in Singapore: an unrecognised public health issue?

ription medicine misuse in Asia, and the information that is available is largely qualitative or expert opinion based.[ 8 ] There is concern in this geographical region that, due to severe penalties – including the death penalty – for the possession and/or use of classical recreational drugs, there may be significant misuse of prescription medicines, given their availability and the lesser or no penalties associated with their misuse.

also in 13,097 other papers