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Teenagers still raiding the medicine chest at home
    #6569891 - 02/15/07 06:03 AM (17 years, 1 month ago)

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_news/story/497483p-419358c.html

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drug czar John Walters said:
The drug dealer is us....





Teenagers still raiding the medicine chest at home

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Junior’s been helping himself to Mother’s little helper.

That’s the conclusion of a report released Wednesday by White House drug czar John Walters that found while teenagers’ use of marijuana is declining, their abuse of prescription drugs is holding steady or in some cases increasing.

“The drug dealer is us,” said Walters, the national drug policy director, who released the report Wednesday at a news conference in New York. “We have to have a response that keeps that very important fact in mind.”

Teens who are being treated for prescription drug addiction agreed. “It’s available and you can get high off of it,” said Michael Robin, a 17-year-old who is being treated for addiction to drugs including Xanax and OxyContin at a Phoenix House facility on Long Island.

Walters said in some cases teens use the Internet to obtain drugs or to visit Web sites that provide what purport to be instructions for taking safe amounts of various prescription drugs. Victoria Winebarger, a therapist at the Pathway Family Center in Southfield, Mich., said some of her clients have also used the Internet to research symptoms of conditions including depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder so that they can get a doctor to prescribe drugs for them.

“That’s not uncommon,” she said. According to an analysis of national drug surveys prepared by Walters’ office, 2.1 million teenagers abused prescription drugs in 2005, the last year for which figures are available. While their use of marijuana declined from 30.1 percent to 25.8 percent from 2002 to 2006, use of OxyContin, a painkiller, increased from 2.7 percent to 3.5 percent over the same period. Use of Vicodin, another pain reliever, increased slightly from 6 percent to 6.3 percent.

Teens are abusing pain relievers as well as stimulants like Adderall and anti-anxiety drugs like Xanax because they are readily available and perceived as safer than street drugs, Walters said. “Fifty-seven percent of them say they get them free from friends or they take them out of somebody’s medicine cabinet,” Walters said in a telephone interview Tuesday.

The report is based on the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, a survey of 68,308 families, and the 2005 Monitoring the Future Survey of 50,000 eighth, 10th and 12th graders conducted by the University of Michigan. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, marijuana use is still more common than prescription drug abuse among youths 12 to 17 years old.

Three percent, or 840,000, of 12-to-17-year-olds said they had abused prescription drugs in the past month, compared with 7 percent who had used marijuana. The Monitoring the Future Survey found that the list of drugs abused by 12th graders was headed by marijuana, with 31.5 percent reporting they had used it in the past year. The rest of the top five were prescription drugs — Vicodin, amphetamines, cough medicine, and sedatives and tranquilizers.

Teenagers and drug counselors said the popularity of prescription drugs is fed by the belief that they are less risky than street drugs. “It seemed a lot safer because I knew what they were putting in them,” said Sara Johnson, a 16-year-old who is being treated for drug addiction at the Pathway Family Center in Southfield, Mich. Johnson, who planned to attend Wednesday’s news conference in New York, said she abused drugs including Xanax and Adderall before bottoming out and going into treatment.

“I would ask people, ’Oh, do your parents have any painkillers at the house?”’ she said. “’Or do they use Adderall?’ It was really easy after a while.” Dr. Terry Horton, the medical director of Phoenix House, which operates nearly 100 substance abuse programs in nine states, said the belief that prescription drugs are safer than street drugs is false. “These medicines cause dependence and addiction when misused and have the potential to cause death,” he said.

“We’re talking about medicines that are related, pharmacologically, to heroin and have very similar effects.” Walters said adults should keep track of prescription drugs and throw them out when they expire.

“People just aren’t aware that they need to be careful, and so they leave prescriptions in the medicine cabinet and they don’t think anything about it,” he said.

“Once you tell them there is a hazard here, there are easy steps to take to put these things in a safe place, to monitor them and also to toss them once you’ve used them.”

Originally published on February 14, 2007


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Re: Teenagers still raiding the medicine chest at home [Re: Schwip]
    #6569974 - 02/15/07 07:54 AM (17 years, 1 month ago)

I bet there's plenty of adults abusing their prescriptions too...

They can demonize these drugs all day, but that won't change the fact that you can get 'em for free in Canada, and by prescription in the US.

If teens wanna get high, give them a bag of weed. At least they can't develop opiate addictions from it...


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Re: Teenagers still raiding the medicine chest at home [Re: Schwip]
    #6570209 - 02/15/07 09:59 AM (17 years, 1 month ago)

Every article I read about prescription drugs has this line about "the myth that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs." Do people still think this? Kids use them because they are available and they work, right? Or are these warnings for the clueless parents, not the kids?

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Re: Teenagers still raiding the medicine chest at home [Re: FollowTheMusic]
    #6570432 - 02/15/07 11:25 AM (17 years, 1 month ago)

yea, thats an odd statement.

they ARE safer to use/abuse, in the sense that the contents of the pill are a known amount and purity.


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Re: Teenagers still raiding the medicine chest at home [Re: Schwip]
    #6571009 - 02/15/07 02:40 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

So marijuana use is increasing, next article marijuana use is decreasing,next article marijuana use is steady, increasing, steady, decreasing, SO WHICH FUCKING ONE IS IT????

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Re: Teenagers still raiding the medicine chest at home [Re: Hix]
    #6571204 - 02/15/07 03:37 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

all of the above :laugh:

:shrug:


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Re: Teenagers still raiding the medicine chest at home [Re: Schwip]
    #6571344 - 02/15/07 04:14 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

they didnt ask me so they arent surveying everyone. although i quit marijuana so its decreasing by .00001%.


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Re: Teenagers still raiding the medicine chest at home [Re: ButterWeasels]
    #6571612 - 02/15/07 05:17 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

Who the fuck do they survey for any of the numbers they come up with for the plethora of stats the media likes to quote?

i know I've NEVER been asked to take a survey or any sort on any topic.

i also don't answer my phone on unavailable, private, or just odd numbers. maybe thats why.


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