Prescription Drug Abuse Rises Among High School Football Players
[2023-01-15 06:50:48]
According to the latest survey published in the Journal of Child and Youth Drug Abuse, abuse of prescription drugs is increasing among American high school soccer players.
The author of the study, Brian Deanham, a professor of sports communication at the University of Clemson, 2,273 high school graduates, cross-listed the quantitative data collected from the 2009 monitoring future survey in which national drug abuse was involved. It is sponsored by the Institute (NIDA). In this survey we analyze data based on gender. The two categories include participation in ethnic and competitive sports.
Interviews were held with male competitors who took part in baseball, basketball, soccer, soccer, swimming, diving and athletics. Women participants in softball, basketball, soccer, swimming, diving, athletics and volleyball were interviewed.
Student athletes are using illegal substances more frequently than competing competitors. This may be due to contention between the peers. For all sports studied, football players are using the most illegal substances, but men consume more than women. In addition, Denham discovered that white students are using more medicines than African American and Hispanic students.
The most worriing thing is that last year 12% of men and 8% of women reported using analgesics.
"I've been studying the use of performance enhancing substances in exercise for about 15 years and this research has extended this research to substances that change thinking," Denham said. "As with marijuana, alcohol has always been there, but young people may choose stronger medicines to gain euphoric effects.
"When prescription painkillers are over-prescribed in some areas, their use may gradually decrease to teenagers," he continued. "The use of anesthetic analgesics may become a habit for some young athletes."
This survey also found that at least half of American high school students are using alcohol. In addition, although the term "hard drug" generally applies to substances such as cocaine or LSD, it is currently also applicable to prescription analgesics or analgesics such as methadone, opium, morphine and codeine.
Drug abuse is on the rise. Although the use of drugs such as cocaine and heroin is decreasing in some parts of the world, abuse of prescription drugs is increasing (UNODC, 2013). Prescription drugs with good prescriptions are now one of the main reasons for self-injurious behavior. Drug abuse has no sex or social class, and it can affect people regardless of social status or wealth. And now we need more than ever to understand the reason behind abuse. The United States has been fighting drug abuse for more than a century. The four presidents started a "drug war", and unfortunately the war kept going out at an astonishing rate. Drug users continue to fill our courts, hospitals and prisons. Drug trafficking has brought violent crime to destroy our community. Children of drug users are ignored, abused, and even abandoned. The current method of dealing with this problem does not work.
School drug abuse, especially high school illegal drugs have long been concerned. Recent articles published by the National Institute for Drug Abuse (NIDA) confirm that it remains a persistent problem. Last month NIDA unveiled the frequency of abuse of non-medical opioids and heroin by current high school graduates. They discovered that 11% of 12th grade students abused prescription painkillers. Of the 819 elderly people using heroin, 77% abused prescription opioids in high school.
In the United States, the use of prescription medicine immediately exceeds the illegal use of medicine. According to the National Institute for Drug Abuse, 7 million people are taking prescription medicine for non-medical use in 2010. Among the 12th grade students, non-prescription drugs became second only to cannabis. "About 12 high school graduates reported non-medical use of Vicodin; 1 of 20 patients reported using OxyContin Both drugs i