/edsblog/where-does-teen-prescription-drug-abuse-start-the-parents-medicine-cabinet/ Helping Americans get safe access to affordable medications. Mon, 06 May 2013 18:36:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 /edsblog/where-does-teen-prescription-drug-abuse-start-the-parents-medicine-cabinet/comment-page-1/#comment-184549 Teen cheerleader busted for selling prescription drugs from her BMW | The eDrugSearch Blog Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:35:16 +0000 /edsblog/?p=840#comment-184549 [...] The girl’s name is Hunter Ashton Johnson. If police allegations are true, it will be interesting to find out where she got her supply; often, it’s from the parents’ medicine cabinet. [...]

]]> /edsblog/where-does-teen-prescription-drug-abuse-start-the-parents-medicine-cabinet/comment-page-1/#comment-182922 How to dispose of unused prescription drugs | The eDrugSearch Blog Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:49:01 +0000 /edsblog/?p=840#comment-182922 [...] we’ve been writing about here, teens who abuse prescription drugs often get them from their parents’ medicine cabinets. In many cases, the drugs are not currently being used by the parents; they were simply never [...]

]]> /edsblog/where-does-teen-prescription-drug-abuse-start-the-parents-medicine-cabinet/comment-page-1/#comment-182778 Annie Alexander Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:32:29 +0000 /edsblog/?p=840#comment-182778 In today’s age where everyone is looking for a quick fix, more and more people have controlled substances in their medicine cabinet. When we pop pills for every ache and pain, how can we expect anything different from our kids. Our prescriptions may be legal and we may take them as prescribed but our children only see that we take them. They enter their teen years and experience life’s growing pains and Tylenol doesn’t cut it anymore. I attended a funeral where the family was passing out Xanax to anyone who was crying to “help them handle their grief”. We as a society need to experience our grief not mask it. Only then can we move on to something bigger and better.

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