HealthDay (8/2, Preidt) reported researchers found that many American teens misusing prescription medications obtain them from multiple sources. The researchers “conducted two studies; the first one involved more than 18,000 high school seniors” and “found that about 11% of them said they misused prescription [medications] in the past year, and of those, 44% had multiple sources for the” medications. The second study involved “nearly 104,000 12- to 17-year-olds” and “found that the most common sources of prescription [medications] were: getting them free from friends and relatives, physician prescriptions for opioids, and buying stimulants and tranquilizers illegally.” Both studies were published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and can be found here and here.
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— “Teens Are Getting Hooked on Leftover Prescription Meds, ” Robert Preidt, HealthDay, August 02, 2019