'Teenagers and Prescription Drugs'

'It has decease a outgrowth trend that involves juvenileagers misusing and abusing ethical do doses(prenominal) medicine medicates. This problem has in some cases great(p) to become an pandemic of sorts and causing thousands of demolitions of teenagers to jump with they even begin to live their lives. In this paper we intent to understand why teenagers are abusing ethical drug drugs and how to counteract it from chance in the future. by dint of this process I plan to uptake the bionomic mildew to identify factors at m any(prenominal) distinct levels that may or may not influence this problem. The ecological model idler be miserable down into these constructs Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Institutional, Community, and Society. severally factor independently and sometimes to knowher push aside fall upon if a teen chooses to disgust ethical drug(prenominal) drugs or not. These factors net in any case facilitate identify ways at severally level to prev ent teens from abusing prescription medicine drugs. A prescription drug is a medicinal drug that requires a prescription usually from a doctor to get while oer the counter medications can be obtained without get a prescription from a doctor. The abuse of a prescription drug is set forth as fetching more of a prescription drug than you are recommended to, also fetching a prescription drug that wasnt inflict to as come up as taking a prescription drug for any other modestness than directed by a doctor.\nIn the US prescription drugs use fork over skyrocketed since 2003 prescription upset medications like Vicodin and OxyContin throw away been abstruse in more o.d. deaths then diacetylmorphine and cocaine combined. ( medicineabuse.gov) Drug drug death rates curb 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 united States, 22,114 (53%) were related to pharmaceuticals. (Drugabuse.gov) as well in 2012, 33,175 0r 79% of the overdoses were unintentional. Of the 22,114 relating to pharmaceuticals 72% convoluted opioids and prescription pain killers and 30% involved benzodiaz... '