The University of Chicago Header Logo

Abuse-Deterrent Formulations

"Abuse-Deterrent Formulations" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
Drug formulations or delivery systems intended to discourage the abuse of CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. These may include physical barriers to prevent chewing or crushing the drug; chemical barriers that prevent extraction of psychoactive ingredients; agonist-antagonist combinations to reduce euphoria associated with abuse; aversion, where controlled substances are combined with others that will produce an unpleasant effect if the patient manipulates the dosage form or exceeds the recommended dose; delivery systems that are resistant to abuse such as implants; or combinations of these methods.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Abuse-Deterrent Formulations" by people in this website by year, and whether "Abuse-Deterrent Formulations" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
_