Sara Bellum Blog
Prescription Drug Abuse
Girls and Boys Have Different Reasons for Prescription Drug Use
Sara Bellum
October 12, 2010
October 12, 2010
Recent research shows that American teen girls have caught up with boys in their rates of smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol, which hasn’t always been the case. Read More »
20 Comments
Rx Drug Abuse
Sara Bellum
November 24, 2009
November 24, 2009
Have you ever wondered about whether medications prescribed by a doctor could actually be dangerous? Or whether giving a friend a prescription pill you take for ADHD could be bad for them? Read More »
22 Comments
Life is Complicated Enough: Why Add Prescription Drugs to the Mix?
Anna
September 02, 2009
September 02, 2009
As a public health analyst at NIDA, one of my jobs is to look at data and help get information out to the public. When I heard that about 1 in 10 high school seniors had used the pain medicine Vicodin last year without a prescription, I knew there was a problem. Read More »
24 Comments