McCabe Sean Esteban, Teter Christian J, Boyd Carol J
Substance Abuse Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48105-2194, USA.
J Am Coll Health. 2006 Mar-Apr;54(5):269-78. doi: 10.3200/JACH.54.5.269-278.
The authors investigated the medical use, illicit use, and diversion of 4 distinct classes of abusable prescription medication (sleeping medication, sedative or anxiety medication, stimulant medication, and pain medication) in a random sample of undergraduate students. In spring 2003, 9,161 undergraduate students attending a large, public, midwestern research university in the United States self-administered a Web-based survey. The prevalence rate for illicit use within the past year was highest for pain medication, followed by stimulant medication, sedative or anxiety medication, and sleeping medication. Women generally reported higher past-year medical use rates. However, undergraduate men reported higher illicit use rates. The illicit use-medical use ratio for stimulant medication was the highest among the 4 classes of prescription drugs. Medical users of stimulants for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder were the most likely to be approached to divert their medication. Multivariate results indicated that illicit users of prescription drugs were more likely to use other drugs than were students who did not use prescription drugs illicitly. The authors provide evidence that prescription drug abuse is a problem among college students.
作者对4类不同的可滥用处方药（安眠药、镇静或抗焦虑药、兴奋剂和止痛药）在本科生随机样本中的医疗用途、非法使用和药物转移情况进行了调查。2003年春季，美国一所位于中西部的大型公立研究型大学的9161名本科生自行完成了一项基于网络的调查。过去一年中，止痛药的非法使用率最高，其次是兴奋剂、镇静或抗焦虑药以及安眠药。女性一般报告的过去一年医疗使用率较高。然而，本科男性报告的非法使用率较高。兴奋剂在4类处方药中的非法使用与医疗使用比率最高。用于治疗注意力缺陷多动障碍的兴奋剂医疗使用者最有可能被人找上门要求转移其药物。多变量结果表明，与未非法使用处方药的学生相比，非法使用处方药的学生更有可能使用其他药物。作者提供的证据表明，处方药滥用在大学生中是一个问题。
