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  2. Prescription drug overuse - Wikipedia

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    Due to their high potential misuse and addictive properties, opioids are highly regulated and controlled by healthcare departments. [9] [10] Additionally, stimulants, antianxiety medicines, and sedatives are addictive drugs that are commonly overused. [2] Antianxiety medicines, such as benzodiazepine, are used to treat anxiety and panic attacks ...

  3. Eugeroic - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] Eugeroics are also often prescribed off-label for the treatment of EDS in idiopathic hypersomnia. [11] In contrast to classical psychostimulants , such as amphetamine and methylphenidate , which are also used in the treatment of these disorders, eugeroics typically do not produce euphoria , and, consequently, have lower misuse potential .

  4. Armodafinil - Wikipedia

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    Armodafinil, sold under the brand name Nuvigil, is a wakefulness-promoting medication which is used to treat excessive daytime sleepiness associated with obstructive sleep apnea, narcolepsy, and shift work disorder. [1] It is also used off-label for certain other indications. [10] The drug is taken by mouth. [1]

  5. List of modafinil analogues and derivatives - Wikipedia

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    [3] [2] [4] The modafinil analogues are of interest in the potential treatment of a condition involving the misuse of stimulant drugs (psychostimulant use disorder or PSUD), as drugs that help increase motivation (pro-motivational agents) to treat motivational disorders, [4] [5] [6] and for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as ...

  6. List of Schedule III controlled substances (U.S.) - Wikipedia

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    The drug or other substance has a potential for abuse less than the drugs or other substances in schedules I and II. The drug or other substance has a currently [1] accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. Abuse of the drug or other substance may lead to moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence.

  7. Nortriptyline - Wikipedia

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    The symptoms and the treatment of an overdose are generally the same as for the other tricyclic antidepressants, including anticholinergic effects, serotonin syndrome and adverse cardiac effects. TCAs, particularly nortriptyline, have a relatively narrow therapeutic index , which increase the chance of an overdose (both accidental and intentional).

  8. Modafinil - Wikipedia

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    Modafinil, sold under the brand name Provigil among others, is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant and eugeroic (wakefulness promoter) medication used primarily to treat narcolepsy, [3] [8] [15] a sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and sudden sleep attacks. [16]

  9. Unnecessary health care - Wikipedia

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    Unnecessary health care (overutilization, overuse, or overtreatment) is health care provided with a higher volume or cost than is appropriate. [1] In the United States, where health care costs are the highest as a percentage of GDP, overuse was the predominant factor in its expense, accounting for about a third of its health care spending ($750 billion out of $2.6 trillion) in 2012.