Large-scale meta-analysis showed that age is not an obstacle to use of opioids

725,000 prescription drug samples tested confirmed that older age groups - especially the HUS1 "baby boom 'generation crowd," the existence of opioid misuse, abuse and the risk of drug interactions.Person in charge of the Baltimore / PRNewswire / --- the Ameritox Company (SM), May 17, 2012, the national pain drug testing, today announced at the annual meeting of the American society of pain subject to peer-reviewed scientific: "The older men pain drug use patterns in the HYOU1 crowd. " The Ameritox company's researchers will share and 724,679 aged greater than or equal to 50-year-old patients with urine drug monitoring sample results. The data show that nearly a third of the clinical urine samples (31.8%) there is no right to a doctor's prescription. And more than a quarter (28%) to contain prescription drugs in the patient's urine samples to monitor, but did not follow the IAP doctor's medical advice.Although the widespread misuse of prescription drugs for the U.S. point of view should focus on young people, but the data show that elderly patients with pain and chronic pain population, like has the potential of medication to poor compliance and drug abuse problems. The Ameritox studies suggest that health professionals should not be of IAPP age as a predictor of an assessment of drug compliance. This study concluded that the elderly population is very possible medication adherence is poor.

The study provides strong evidence that the implementation of drug monitoring, urine samples of monitoring must be two reasons that the elderly with chronic pain. The Ameritox company's chief medical officer HarryLeider Dr. said: "First of all older age groups with drugs wrongly IBSP danger and the danger to those who need extra attention has been warned to take drugs." The second reason is that nearly 1/4 of the patients takingThe strong efficacy of drugs, but these open analgesic drugs by medical practitioners and did not notice this. These data provide regular monitoring of drug use for elderly with chronic pain and provide a compelling reason.Other data also pointed out that in a variety of drug treatment in elderly patients taking the treatment of chronic pain to open by different doctors, some of which were the presence of drugs misuse. This is mainly due to older age groups the risk of higher drug - drug interactions. In addition, elderly patients is difficult to remember or the continuous monitoring of prescription drugs to them by different doctors opened. The results of common drug side effects and drug interactions include: constipation, change in mental status, depression and falls. Prescription drug monitoring can help doctors provide a more comprehensive patient medication situation, and most likely in the timely detection of serious incident.The population of elderly patients with pain associated with drug use patterns of MD LisaBurke, MBA, RN and Dr. pharmacology, an MBA MonicaFay and Ameritox assistant medical director of co-authored. The Ameritox Assistant Medical Director detect all the data from the older age groups, urine drug samples over 50 years of age, data analysis and by Ameritox company from October 1, 2009 to September 30, 2009. A total of 725,679 copies of a urine drug samples.