2003 Primary Prevention Awareness, Attitude, and Use Survey

Self-Reported Abuse of Others' Prescriptions and Over-the-Counter Medications

(PPAAUS items 29 & 30) An average of one-half percent of the Franklin County middle-school students and three percent of the high-school students reported regularly using others’ prescription drugs to get high -- overall, two percent of the males and two percent of the females. One-half percent of the sixth through eighth graders and two percent of the ninth through twelfth graders reported that they used OTC medications to get high at least once a month (overall, one percent of the males and one percent of the females).

An average of 98 percent of the middle-school students and 92 percent of the high-school students had never abused others’ prescription medications; 99 percent and 93 percent respectively had never abused OTC medications.


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