1 in 5 high schoolers abuse prescription drugs
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The abused drugs include pain pills and attention deficit drugs
used as study aids.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found that
the drug use was most common among 12th graders. White students
took the drugs more than blacks or Hispanics.
The CDC did not have information on which drugs were abused the
most.
The findings released Thursday come from a 2009 confidential and
anonymous survey of more than 16,000 U.S. high school students.
This was the first year students were asked about prescription drug
abuse.
