Prescription drug abuse

Abstract

This article presents current statistics on nonmedical use of both categories of prescription medications by high school and college students. The incidence of nonmedical use of prescription medications continues to increase among high school and college students. Two categories of drugs that are commonly used for reasons other than those for which the drugs are prescribed are those used for pain and those prescribed for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Demographic and behavioral characteristics of students who are most likely to engage in intentional abuse of stimulants and pain medications as well as stated motivations for use are presented. C 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

A Mixture IRT Analysis of Risky Youth Behavior

“…Within the content area of substance use, selected items reflected both substance use across one's lifetime as well use within the past few weeks. Based on previous literature regarding behaviors that might reflect adolescents at-risk, items related to cigaret, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, methamphetamines, and prescription drug use and the relationship to health behaviors were included (Wickrama et al, 1999 ; Safron et al, 2001 ; Hamilton, 2009 ; Landis et al, 2009 ; Grana et al, 2010 ), whereas drugs related to possible performance enhancement such as steroids were excluded from the analysis. With respect to risky sexual behaviors, items related to age of onset of sexual behavior, number of partners in one's lifetime, and number of partners within the last 3 months were selected.…”

Et udstrakt selv

“…Samtidigt er et stigende antal børn, teenagere og unge voksne blevet diagnosticeret og medicinsk behandlet for sygdomme som ADHD, depression og angst (Ford et al, 2014;Hamilton, 2009;Jørgensen, 2012;Roy et al, 2011), og mange forskere ser en sammenhaeng mellem øget diagnosticering og tilgaengelighed af medicin blandt børn og unge voksne (DeSantis & Hane, 2010;LeClair et al, 2015;McCabe et al, 2007;Mui et al, 2014) og stigningen i ikke-medicinsk brug blandt unge studerende.…”

Målrettethed og kontrol

“…Den seneste tid har der i mange vestlige lande, inklusive Danmark, vaeret et øgende fokus på unges brug af receptpligtig medicin for at levere bedre praestationer under uddannelse. Samtidig ses et stigende antal børn og unge voksne, der bliver diagnosticeret og medicinsk behandlet for sygdomme som ADHD, depression og angst (Ford & Arrastia, 2014;Hamilton, 2009;Jørgensen, 2012).…”