Teenagers and Prescription Drugs

It has become a growing trend that involves teenagers misusing and abusing ethical medicine do doses drug(prenominal) drugs. This problem has in well-nigh cases grown to become an pestilent of sorts and causing thousands of deaths of teenagers before they thus far begin to live their lives. In this paper we look to project why teenagers are abusing ethical drug drugs and how to prevent it from happening in the future. Through this process I plan to use the ecologic case to identify work outs at many different directs that whitethorn or may not influence this problem. The ecological model can be disjointed down into these constructs Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Institutional, Community, and Society. Each factor individually and sometimes together can affect if a teen chooses to abuse prescription drugs or not. These factors can as well as help identify shipway at each level to prevent teens from abusing prescription drugs. A prescription drug is a medication that r equires a prescription usually from a rectify to get while everyplace the counter medications can be obtained without getting a prescription from a doctor. The abuse of a prescription drug is set forth as winning much of a prescription drug than you are recommended to, also taking a prescription drug that wasnt prescribed to as well as taking a prescription drug for any other reason out than directed by a doctor.\nIn the US prescription drugs use baffle skyrocketed since 2003 prescription spite medications like Vicodin and OxyContin induce been involved in more drug deaths then diacetylmorphine and cocaine combined. (Drugabuse.gov) Drug overdose death rates have been on a rustle since 1992 with a 117% increase from 1999 to 2012. (CDC) in 2012 33,175(79.9%) of the 41,502 drug overdose deaths in the United States, 22,114 (53%) were related to pharmaceuticals. (Drugabuse.gov) likewise in 2012, 33,175 0r 79% of the overdoses were unintentional. Of the 22,114 relating to ph armaceuticals 72% involved opioids and prescription pain killers and 30% involved benzodiaz...