How Prescription Drug Abuse Affects Teens In today’s society, many young teens recreationally use prescription drugs. According to the medical dictionary recreational drug use is a substance taken for nonmedical purposes (medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com). Prescription drugs are a controlled substance prescribed by doctors to their patients who are experiencing internal or external pain or have a medical condition that requires them to take the meds. Statistics show that prescription drug abuse among 8th through 12th grade students has decreased over the years. Though this decrease was not a very drastic change it still gives hope that one day teens will not be abusing prescription pills. Have you ever stopped and wondered how these
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The United States Enforcement Administration has put a lot of the pain killers and stimulants in the same group as opium and cocaine (drugfreeworld.gov). As we all know both of these drugs are very powerful, strong, addictive, and have even caused some deaths when using too much. The most common pain killers and stimulant drugs that teens tend to get their hands on or just prefer to use are OxyContin, Demerol, Roxanol, Ritalin, and Dexedrine (drugfreeworld.org). All of these are known as very powerful and addictive drugs, though there are many more these are the most commonly used. Many of these illegal drugs were once at the hands of doctors to prescribe to their patients such as Heroin, Cocaine, LSD, Methamphetamine, and Ecstasy but eventually that privilege was revoked from doctors because the harmful effects of these drugs were climbing and they could not longer be oblivious to them (drugfreeworld.org). So if these specific drugs were banned from doctors prescribing because of the affects then why can’t the pain killers and stimulants that our teens are using be monitored closer when on the street market? It seems a little insane that it’s okay for one drug to be available for these kids, but then others are banned from doctors to even prescribe. That’s where the adults in the children’s live need to be a positive influence and try and persuade these kids to do something other than get wrapped up in the world of illegally using prescription
The United States Enforcement Administration has put a lot of the pain killers and stimulants in the same group as opium and cocaine (drugfreeworld.gov). As we all know both of these drugs are very powerful, strong, addictive, and have even caused some deaths when using too much. The most common pain killers and stimulant drugs that teens tend to get their hands on or just prefer to use are OxyContin, Demerol, Roxanol, Ritalin, and Dexedrine (drugfreeworld.org). All of these are known as very powerful and addictive drugs, though there are many more these are the most commonly used. Many of these illegal drugs were once at the hands of doctors to prescribe to their patients such as Heroin, Cocaine, LSD, Methamphetamine, and Ecstasy but eventually that privilege was revoked from doctors because the harmful effects of these drugs were climbing and they could not longer be oblivious to them (drugfreeworld.org). So if these specific drugs were banned from doctors prescribing because of the affects then why can’t the pain killers and stimulants that our teens are using be monitored closer when on the street market? It seems a little insane that it’s okay for one drug to be available for these kids, but then others are banned from doctors to even prescribe. That’s where the adults in the children’s live need to be a positive influence and try and persuade these kids to do something other than get wrapped up in the world of illegally using prescription