Addiction to Medications: What Are the Risks and Who Is Vulnerable? |
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| Air date: | Tuesday, November 09, 2004, 5:00:00 PM |
| Category: | Medicine for the Public |
| Runtime: | 00:56:03 |
| NLM Title: | Addiction to medications : what are the risks and who is vulnerable? [electronic resource] / Nora D. Volkow. |
| Author: | Volkow, Nora D. |
| Publisher: | [Bethesda, Md. : National Institutes of Health, 2004] |
| Abstract: | (CIT): NIH Clinical Center's 2004 Medicine for the Public lecture series. Most people who take prescription medications take them responsibly, but the non-medical use of these drugs can be dangerous. Non-medical use of certain prescription drugs can lead to abuse and dependence, characterized by compulsive drug-seeking and use. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an estimated 6.2 million people used prescription medications non-medically in 2002. The National Institute on Drug Abuse's annual Monitoring the Future survey found a staggeringly high increase in reported rates of non-medical use of two pain medications among 12th graders. One-in-ten high school seniors took Vicodin(r) last year, making it the second-most commonly reported illicit drug used by high school seniors, after marijuana. |
| Subjects: | Behavior, Addictive Dopamine--physiology Pharmaceutical Preparations Substance-Related Disorders United States |
| Publication Types: | Government Publications Lectures |
| Rights: | This is a work of the United States Government. No copyright exists on this material. It may be disseminated freely. |
| NLM Classification: | WM 270 |
| NLM ID: | 101268601 |
| CIT File ID: | 12283 |
| CIT Live ID: | 3711 |
| Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?12283 |