Further research would benefit studying the reasons behind the drug use as they may be self-medicating for the panic attacks or for various other medical conditions or job performances. The questionnaire in NESARC only addressed how often the participant had used each drug in the last 12 months, not the reasoning behind it or whether the participant had a substance abuse disorder. To discover if the panic attack sufferers were self-medicating, further research must occur in determining the motives behind the usage of each drug.
Another factor that needs to be under consideration is that each drug user could have been under more