Non-College Student Young Adults More Likely to Abuse Prescription Drugs, Study Finds

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Young adults aged 18 to 22 are more likely to abuse prescription painkillers if they are not enrolled in college.

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Young adults aged 18 to 22 are more likely to abuse prescription painkillers if they are not enrolled in college, a new study published in

Social Psychiatry + Psychiatric Epidemiology

indicates. The study, “Nonmedical prescription drug use among US adults by educational attainment,” also found 13.2% of those who did not graduate from high school and 13.1% of non-college-attending students with high school diplomas reported nonmedical use of an opioid within the last year. Only 11.3% of college students reported the same. The authors of the study argue that the results prove a need to target prescription drug abuse prevention and intervention programs to young adults beyond college campuses. An abstract of the study and a full report is available on the

Springer Link

website.

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