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.
Self-Reported Abuse of Others’ Prescriptions and Over-the-Counter Medications (PPAAUS items 31 & 32) Less than one-half percent of the Franklin County Schools middle-school students and three percent of the high-school students reported regularly using others’ prescription drugs to get high. Less than one 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.
An average of 99 percent of the middle-school students and 92 percent of the high-school students had never abused others’ prescription medications; 97 percent and 94 percent respectively had never abused OTC medications.
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