In recent years, a new trend had seen in many countries, an alarming trend, specifically amongst teenagers in the form of sharing prescription medication. Because of this, many different studies have been performed to determine the extent of the problem so it can be addressed and resolved. The results of these studies were even more alarming than the fact that prescription medication sharing occurs at all.<\/p>\n
Studies have already found that more teenage girls, than boys are doing this. Why is not quite known, but over 13% of teenage girls say they have either taken someone else’s prescription, or have given their own prescription to someone else. The sharing of prescriptions start out innocently enough most times. Someone has a friend who’s in pain or “stressed out” and another friend offers up what they take to relieve them of the same problem.<\/p>\n
The girls claim they share their meds with a friend because she takes the same meds and is out at the time needed, or a parent uses the same meds and they don’t feel that sharing is bad because the medication is the same. It’s still not understood why girls do this more than boys, other than girls seem to go through more “growing pains” than boys do.<\/p>\n