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Article: Teens and prescription drugs.(EDITORIALS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 14, 2007
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Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES
As families begin preparations for the upcoming school year, parents should be aware of a peer-pressure problem burgeoning nationwide: prescription-drug abuse. Parents, particularly those with teen-age girls, should hold frank discussions with their children about this problem, which is causing increased deaths and hospitalizations across the country.
Nearly one in five 7th- through 12th-graders say they have used prescription drugs to get high, according to a survey by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. One in 10 say they've gotten high off of cough medicine. These figures put prescription and over-the-counter drug ...