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Article: Abusing teens get drugs at home; Medicine cabinet new key source.(NATION)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 22, 2005
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Byline: Joyce Howard Price, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
American teens wanting to get high have a new source for obtaining drugs - their parents' medicine cabinets.
Because of easy accessibility and a feeling of safety over "street drugs," prescription and over-the-counter medicines have created a new category of abuse, a national study finds.
In its 17th annual study of teen drug abuse, Partnership for a Drug-Free America found that 10 percent of teens - 2.3 million - have abused the prescription painkiller OxyContin. The same number have abused Ritalin and/or Adderall, prescriptions intended for the treatment of attention-deficit (hyperactivity) ...