Dr. Richard Goldsworthy interviewed 592 children ages 12 to 17 about their use of prescription drugs. The researchers found that 32 percent of teens do not tell their doctors when they have taken a borrowed medication.
Among the many dangers of teen prescription pill abuse is that the borrowed drugs can interact with one another or with alcohol or have side effects that the users are neither aware of nor prepared for.
Labels: teens, prescription_drug_abuse
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