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Campaign warns against teen prescription abuse
By Staff Writer
 Philly Burbs recently reported on the Lock Your Meds program, a campaign from the National Family Partnership (NFP) that strives to teach parents that they may be unintentional providers of prescription drugs to their teens. Citing a study by the NFP, the news provider states that about 70 percent of teens who use medications recreationally get them from friends and family members. For many youths, this may be all too easy, as approximately 68 percent of households do not properly secure their prescription medications. Officials from the campaign recommend that adults keep potentially hazardous prescriptions locked up instead of in an unsecured medicine cabinet. Parents should also warn their teens that although medications come from a doctor's office, they can still be dangerous, addictive and lethal. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, classes of prescription medications that are popularly abused include opioids, central nervous system depressants and stimulants. Parents who are worried that their teen is abusing medications may want to research the option of enrolling him or her in a troubled youth boarding school.
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