Teenagers and Prescription Drugs

It has become a growing trend that involves teenagers misusing and abusing prescription medicine drug do doses(prenominal) medicine doses. This problem has in around cases grown to become an epiphytotic of sorts and causing thousands of deaths of teenagers before they flat begin to live their lives. In this paper we look to ensure why teenagers are abusing prescription drugs and how to prevent it from happening in the future. Through this process I plan to use the bionomical stick to identify instruments at many different trains that may or may not influence this problem. The ecological model can be mazed down into these constructs Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Institutional, Community, and Society. Each factor individually and sometimes unitedly can affect if a teen chooses to abuse prescription drugs or not. These factors can also help identify shipway at each level to prevent teens from abusing prescription drugs. A prescription drug is a medication that requir es a prescription usually from a repair to get while all over the counter medications can be obtained without getting a prescription from a doctor. The abuse of a prescription drug is exposit as fetching to a greater extent of a prescription drug than you are recommended to, also winning a prescription drug that wasnt prescribed to as well as taking a prescription drug for any other moderateness than directed by a doctor.\nIn the US prescription drugs use feed skyrocketed since 2003 prescription anguish medications like Vicodin and OxyContin break been involved in more than o.d. deaths then heroin and cocaine combined. (Drugabuse.gov) Drug overdose death rates have been on a emission 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) withal in 2012, 33,175 0r 79% of the overdoses were unintentional. Of the 22,114 relating to pharmaceuticals 72% involved opioids and prescription pain killers and 30% involved benzodiaz...