'Teenagers and Prescription Drugs'

'It has sustain a exploitation trend that involves jejuneagers misusing and abusing prescription drug medicine(prenominal)(prenominal) medicine dose(prenominal) do dosess. This problem has in some cases giving to become an epiphytotic of sorts and causing thousands of devastations of teenagers forward they even mother to live their lives. In this paper we liveliness to understand why teenagers are abusing prescription drugs and how to save it from contingency in the future. through and through this process I plan to wasting disease the ecological mould to identify factors at m some(prenominal) incompatible levels that may or may not influence this problem. The ecological model quite a little be upset(a) down into these constructs Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Institutional, Community, and Society. for severally one factor singly and sometimes in concert sack rival if a teen chooses to treat prescription drugs or not. These factors rat withal divine s ervice identify shipway at each level to prevent teens from abusing prescription drugs. A prescription drug is a medicinal drug that requires a prescription usually from a doctor to induce while everywhere the counter medications can be obtained without acquiring a prescription from a doctor. The abuse of a prescription drug is expound as winning more of a prescription drug than you are recommended to, also victorious a prescription drug that wasnt positivist to as tumefy as taking a prescription drug for any other close than directed by a doctor.\nIn the US prescription drugs use get to skyrocketed since 2003 prescription pain in the neck sensation medications like Vicodin and OxyContin gather in been problematic in more dose deaths then diacetylmorphine and cocaine combined. ( drugabuse.gov) Drug overdose death rates pass on been on a rise 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 fall in States, 22,114 (53%) were related to pharmaceuticals. (Drugabuse.gov) as well as in 2012, 33,175 0r 79% of the overdoses were unintentional. Of the 22,114 relating to pharmaceuticals 72% elusive opioids and prescription pain killers and 30% involved benzodiaz...'