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Abusing prescription medication can be extremely dangerous.
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Prescription Drug Abuse
The Drug Abuse Prevention Library
Jeremy Roberts
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. New York
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The people pictured in this book are only models. They in no way practice or endorse the activities illustrated. Captions serve only to explain the subjects of photographs and do not in any way imply a connection between the reallife models and the staged situations.
Published in 2000 by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. 29 East 21st Street, New York, NY 10010
Copyright 2000 by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.
First Edition
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Roberts, Jeremy Prescription drug abuse / by Jeremy Roberts. p. cm.- (The drug abuse prevention library) Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary: Discusses how prescription drugs are abused, how to recognize this problem in parents and friends, and how to seek help. ISBN 0-8239-3158-7 (lib. bdg.) 1. Drug abuse-Juvenile literature. 2. Substance abuse-Physiological aspects-Juvenile literature. [1. Drugs. 2. Drug abuse.] I. Title. II. Series. RC564.3 .R63 2000 362.29'9-dc21 99-048023 CIP AC
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Contents
Introduction
6
Chapter 1
Mother's Little Helper
10
Chapter 2
What's an Rx, Anyway?
14
Chapter 3
Commonly Abused Drugs
21
Chapter 4
Steroids
35
Chapter 5
Abusing Prescription Drugs
41
Chapter 6
Reactions and Interactions
46
Chapter 7
How Do You Tell Someone...
51
Glossary
57
Where to Go for Help
59
For Further Reading
61
Index
62
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Introduction
Jen rubbed her face and glanced toward the front of the classroom. Her math teacher, Mr. Phillips, was explaining how to solve a geometry problem. Math was one of her best subjects, but suddenly nothing Mr. Phillips was saying made sense. In fact, it sounded to Jen as if he were speaking a foreign language.
Actually, she wasn't thinking much about anything. She did, however, feel incredibly tired. She closed her eyes and felt herself falling right into bed. Except that it wasn't her bed she was falling toward; it was the floor.
The next thing Jen knew, she was in the school nurse's office. The nurse was there, along with the vice principal. They kept asking her questions. The questions were harsh. They wanted to know why she'd fallen asleep. One of her friends had apparently told the vice
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An inability to concentrate is one of the first signs of prescription drug abuse.
principal that she had seen Jen take some pink pills. They wanted to know what they were.
Jen shrugged. She felt very far away, as if she were lying at the bottom of a ten-foot-deep pool. They wanted her to wake up. The nurse, normally a calm little old lady, was screaming at her. Jen tried to tell her that there wasn't a problem. She was just tired, that's all.
Then an ambulance attendant came into the room. More questions. What did she take? Jen tried to tell them that she had taken two pills. They were prescription drugs that her friend Kristen had given her. It was a prescription that Kristen's mom had gotten some time ago painkillers or something. Jen had even taken one once before. But she was so tired
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that her mouth just didn't seem to work. She started slipping back into sleep...
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