When cure becomes an illness-abuse of addictive prescription medicines

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac Kragujevac, Serbia.
² Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac Kragujevac, Serbia.
³ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac Kragujevac, Serbia ; Psychiatry Clinic, University Clinical Center Kragujevac Kragujevac, Serbia.

Mihajlo Michael Jakovljevic et al. Front Pharmacol. 2015.

. 2015 Sep 15:6:193.

doi: 10.3389/fphar.2015.00193. eCollection 2015.

¹ Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac Kragujevac, Serbia.
² Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac Kragujevac, Serbia.
³ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac Kragujevac, Serbia ; Psychiatry Clinic, University Clinical Center Kragujevac Kragujevac, Serbia.

No abstract available

Keywords: addiction; costs; drugs of abuse; expenditure; pharmaceutical market; trend.

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