'Teenagers and Prescription Drugs'

'It has turn a growing grade that involves teenagers misusing and abusing ethical medicine(prenominal)(prenominal) medicates. This enigma has in several(prenominal) cases grown to become an epidemic of sorts and create thousands of deaths of teenagers before they devisee begin to comp bob up their lives. In this idea we look to come across why teenagers be abusing prescription medicine medicates and how to impede it from happening in the future. Through this physical process I plan to function the bionomical get to put operators at many different levels that may or may not enamor this problem. The ecological model plenty be broken guttle into these constructs Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Institutional, Community, and Society. Each factor individually and sometimes together can affect if a teen chooses to misapply prescription drugs or not. These factors can in addition help point ways at each level to prevent teens from abusing prescription drugs. A prescription drug is a medication that requires a prescription ordinarily from a reinstate to get small-arm over the incompatible medications can be obtained without getting a prescription from a doctor. The abuse of a prescription drug is described as victorious more of a prescription drug than you are recommended to, also taking a prescription drug that wasnt prescribed to as well as taking a prescription drug for any some other reason than direct by a doctor.\nIn the US prescription drugs use have skyrocketed since 2003 prescription pain medications ilk Vicodin and OxyContin have been concern in more dose deaths past heroin and cocain combined. (Drugabuse.gov) Drug overdose death grade have been on a rise since 1992 with a 117% plus 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 tie in to pharmaceuticals. (Drugabuse.gov) Also in 2012, 33,175 0r 79% of the overdoses were unintentional. Of the 22,114 relating to pharmaceuticals 72% involved opioids and prescription pain killers and 30% involved benzodiaz... '