Title: Codeine Use Misuse Dependence (CODEMISUSED)

URL: http://www.codemisused.org/

Collection: Opioid Epidemic web archive

Description: Website for Codeine Use Misuse Dependence (CODEMISUSED), a 48 month project supported by an Expert Advisory Panel with representatives of the European Medicines Agency, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa and Royal Pharmaceutical Society UK. The project seeks to develop partnerships in facilitating research into codeine sales, purchasing habits and patterns of use, misuse and dependence; develop a core intercountry collaborative scientific platform for epidemiological information on codeine using a multidisciplinary group of academic and pharmacy experts with a proven track record of collaborative research, promote the outcomes of this collaboration through the dissemination of outputs and intercountry templates for quantification of extent of prescribed, OTC and websourced codeine product sales, and patterns of use, misuse and dependence; promote the outcomes of this collaboration through the dissemination of outputs and contributions to innovation in the form of CPD training for professionals, pharmacy based brief interventions and store design, along with intercountry templates for quantification of public health cost of codeine use, misuse and dependence in each country, promote the outcomes of this collaboration through the dissemination of outputs and inter country templates for the development of national policies regarding codeine product sale and dispensing practices, and the design of public health, pharmacy and web based campaigns targeting potential misuse and dependence, enhance and embed the interdisciplinary links, knowledge exchange and the academic-industry collaboration, and establish a sustainable high quality research cluster capable of attracting funding for future ventures which are intended to include pharmaceutical companies manufacturing and designing codeine based products.

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