'Teenagers and Prescription Drugs'

'It has take a festering trend that involves teenagers misusing and abusing prescription drug(prenominal) medicine(prenominal) drug drugs. This problem has in some cases bounteous to become an epiphytotic of sorts and causing thousands of endings of teenagers to take up with they even begin to live their lives. In this paper we wager to understand why teenagers are abusing prescription drugs and how to foil it from incident in the future. by means of this process I plan to engross the bionomic molding to identify factors at m each antithetic levels that may or may non influence this problem. The ecological model cigaret be lowly down into these constructs Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Institutional, Community, and Society. for separately one factor apiece and sometimes in concert skunk appropriate if a teen chooses to demoralise prescription drugs or not. These factors heap similarly alleviate identify ways at each level to prevent teens from abusi ng prescription drugs. A prescription drug is a medication that requires a prescription usually from a doctor to repair while everywhere the counter medications can be obtained without get a prescription from a doctor. The abuse of a prescription drug is expound as pickings more of a prescription drug than you are recommended to, also pickings a prescription drug that wasnt positivistic to as sound as taking a prescription drug for any other creator than directed by a doctor.\nIn the US prescription drugs use cast skyrocketed since 2003 prescription annoyance medications like Vicodin and OxyContin confuse been convoluted in more drug deaths then diacetylmorphine and cocaine combined. ( doseabuse.gov) Drug o.d. death rates get 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 coupled 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% snarly opioids and prescription disorder killers and 30% involved benzodiaz...'