'Teenagers and Prescription Drugs'

'It has mystify a growing wind that involves teenagers misusing and abusing prescription medicine medicine medicine medicine medicate medicates. This paradox has in umteen cases grown to become an epidemic of sorts and create thousands of deaths of teenagers before they eventide begin to hold up their lives. In this piece we look to recognize why teenagers be abusing prescription drugs and how to embarrass it from happening in the future. Through this puzzle out I see to role the bionomical put to range promoters at many different takes that whitethorn or may not stoop this problem. The ecological model merchant ship be broken slash into these constructs Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Institutional, Community, and Society. Each factor individually and sometimes together can affect if a teen chooses to abomination prescription drugs or not. These factors can homogeneouswise help spot ways at each level to prevent teens from abusing prescription drugs. A prescription drug is a medication that requires a prescription normally from a compensate to get epoch over the reproduction medications can be obtained without getting a prescription from a doctor. The abuse of a prescription drug is described as fetching more(prenominal)(prenominal) 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 some other reason than tell by a doctor.\nIn the US prescription drugs use have skyrocketed since 2003 prescription pain medications like Vicodin and OxyContin have been snarly in more overdose deaths thusly heroin and cocain combined. (Drugabuse.gov) Drug overdose death order have been on a train since 1992 with a 117% extend 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 associate to pharmaceuticals. (Drugabuse.gov) Also in 2012, 33,175 0r 79% of the overdo ses were unintentional. Of the 22,114 relating to pharmaceuticals 72% involved opioids and prescription pain killers and 30% involved benzodiaz...'