Nearly Half of Homeless Youth Have Misused Prescription Drugs, Study Says [NCFY.ACF.HHS.gov]

Samantha Sangenito 1/29/1512:00 PM

“Prescription Drug Misuse Among Homeless Youth,” Harmony Rhoades, Hailey Winetrobe, and Eric Rice. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Vol. 138 (May 2014).

What it’s about: Researchers asked 435 homeless youth, recruited from two Los Angeles drop-in centers, how often they misused prescription drugs like Oxycontin and Xanax and how they got the medications.

To see what factors accompany prescription drug misuse among homeless youth, the researchers also asked about other substance use, mental health, trauma histories and risky sexual behaviors.

[For more of this story go to http://ncfy.acf.hhs.gov/news/2...ion-drugs-study-says]

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Robert OlcottMember

It is good to see news of organizations that recognize the multitude of factors necessary to serve this group of exploited human beings, and utilizing tools like printed resource manuals, in a multitude of languages. Prior to 9/11/2001, I noticed a few of these young human beings, on the streets of northern New England as well as parts of eastern Canada, but the prevalence in New York City, and reportedly [from a previous ACEsConnection post], in the Bay Area of California, warrants this kind of initiative.

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