Clinical Review
The Scope of Adolescent Prescription Drug Abuse
Emergency Medicine. 2009 January;41(1):16-22
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Eric T. Elliott, MD, Christopher A. Souder, MD, Troy Privette, MD, and William H. Richardson, MD
Abuse of prescription drugs by young people is a national epidemic. The authors survey the problem, review existing responses, and suggest practical ways emergency physicians can prevent and treat it.