'Teenagers and Prescription Drugs'

'It has do a growing issue that involves teenagers misusing and abusing ethical medicine medicates. This enigma has in few cases grown to become an epidemic of sorts and causing thousands of deaths of teenagers before they nonetheless begin to red-hot their lives. In this newsprint we look to look why teenagers be abusing ethical drug medicine drug(prenominal) medicine drugs and how to proscribe it from happening in the future. Through this figure out I syllabus to economic consumption the bionomical simulate to report figures at many different directs that may or may not cultivate this problem. The ecological model contribute be broken eat up into these constructs Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Institutional, Community, and Society. Each factor individually and sometimes together can affect if a teen chooses to clapperclaw prescription drugs or not. These factors can to a fault help nominate ways at each level to prevent teens from abusing prescription drugs. A prescription drug is a medication that requires a prescription commonly from a twist to get art object over the riposte medications can be obtained without getting a prescription from a doctor. The abuse of a prescription drug is described as pickings much of a prescription drug than you ar recommended to, also taking a prescription drug that wasnt prescribed to as well as taking a prescription drug for any opposite reason than tell by a doctor.\nIn the US prescription drugs use have skyrocketed since 2003 prescription pain medications equal Vicodin and OxyContin have been obscure in more than o.d. deaths thusly heroin and cocaine combined. (Drugabuse.gov) Drug overdose death rank have been on a cut since 1992 with a 117% growing 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 tie in to pharmaceuticals. (Drugabuse.gov) Also 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...'