英文摘要 |
Only a few Schedule I and Schedule II controlled drugs are approved for medical use in the management of cancer pain and chronic non-cancer pain in Taiwan. As people are better educated in the area of pain management, the consumption of schedule I and II controlled drugs have increased over the past years, and there are more diverse requirements by physicians for clinical use in Taiwan. The aims of this study is to investigate the latest trend in the consumption and utilization pattern of schedule I and II controlled drugs by analyzing the data from sales database of the pharmaceutical plant of TFDA and the National Health Insurance Research Database. Our study shows that the overall sales increased by 167% from 515.5 S-DDD/m/d (Defined Daily Dose for Statistical Purposes per million person per day) to 1,375.6 S-DDD/m/d between 2008 and 2017. The drug consumption of those drugs which were reimbursed by National Health Insurance increased by 27.3% from 446.2 S-DDD/m/d to 568.1 S-DDD/m/d during 2008 to 2016. Particularly, the use of newly introduced drugs such as oxycodone has grown rapidly in recent years. It is recommended that the trend of opioid consumption, addiction, abuse, and the risk of side effects should be continuously monitored. |