Report Says 1 in 5 Teens Abuse Prescription Drugs
Subject: Public Agenda Alert
From: public-agenda-online-alert
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:53:09 -0400
Behind the Headlines: Report Says 1 in 5 Teens Abuse Prescription Drugs
The annual Partnership for a Drug-Free America (http://www.drugfree.org/) study has found more teenagers are abusing legal prescription painkillers than they are other illegal drugs. Public Agenda found that single and low-income parents are much more likely than married and well-to-do parents to be concerned about their teens abusing drugs. In fact, nearly three-quarters of both low-income and single parents surveyed said they worry "a lot" about protecting their child from drugs.
Find out more in Public Agenda’s Behind the Headlines blog: http://www.publicagenda.org/headlines/headlines_blog.cfm. Contact Public Agenda – mailto:support@publicagenda.org – for additional information: Public Agenda, 6 East 39th Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10016.
For more information about the study from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, please see http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/DrugIssue/Research/Generation_Rx_National_Study_Reveals_New_Category/Teens_Abusing_Rx_and_OTC_Medications.
For more information about prescription medicine misuse and abuse, please see http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/DrugIssue/Features/Prescription_Medicine_Misuse.
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