Friese Bettina, Moore Roland S, Grube Joel W, Jennings Vanessa K
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Oakland, California.
J Drug Educ. 2013;43(3):223-33. doi: 10.2190/DE.43.3.b.
Qualitative interviews were conducted with parents of teens to explore how parents store and monitor prescription drugs in the home. Most parents had prescription drugs in the house, but took few precautions against teens accessing these drugs. Strategies for monitoring included moving the drugs to different locations, remembering how many pills were left, and how medication containers were positioned. Reasons given for not securing drugs were that parents did not think that their teens would be interested in their prescription drugs and did not believe that they could be used to get high. This study highlights the need for parents to be educated about securing prescription drugs, the dangers of non-medical prescription drug use by teens, and which drugs might be used for non-medical purposes.
对青少年的父母进行了定性访谈,以探讨父母在家中如何储存和监管处方药。大多数父母家中都有处方药,但几乎没有采取预防措施防止青少年接触这些药物。监管策略包括将药物转移到不同位置、记住剩余药丸数量以及药物容器的摆放方式。不确保药物安全的原因是父母认为他们的青少年对他们的处方药不会感兴趣,并且不相信这些药物会被用来吸毒。这项研究强调有必要对父母进行关于确保处方药安全、青少年非医疗使用处方药的危害以及哪些药物可能被用于非医疗目的的教育。