Sunday, April 24, 2005

eyeroll of the day- bostock

I would like to send a big eyeroll out to Bostock for below quote. It sounds like progress to me. Also, who cares about the ritalin and adderall- we would be better off if we required it for 7-12 graders.
“A new category of substance abuse is emerging in America: Increasingly, teenagers are getting high through the intentional abuse of medications,” said Roy Bostock, chairman of the Partnership for a Drug Free America. “For the first time, our national study finds that today’s teens are more likely to have abused a prescription painkiller to get high than they are to have experimented with a variety of illicit drugs – including Ecstasy, cocaine, crack and LSD. In other words, ‘Generation Rx’ has arrived.”
A 2004 Partnership Attitude Tracking Study (PATS), which surveyed 7,300 teens, found that one in five teens abused the prescription painkiller Vicodin, while one in 10 teenagers abused a similar drug in OxyContin. Also, one in 10 teenagers has tried prescription stimulants Ritalin and/or Adderall without a doctor’s consent.

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