High School Students and Drug Abuse

One in five high school students may abuse prescription medications.
The AP (6/4) reports that a survey (pdf) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "shows one in five high school students have taken a prescription" medication not obtained by a prescription from a physician, including pain medicines and medications for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder "used as study aids."
The 2009 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey also found that "twelfth-graders had the highest likelihood of prescription" medication "abuse, at 26 percent, and ninth-graders had the lowest, at 15 percent," the CNN (6/3, Landau) "Paging Dr. Gupta" blog reported.
HealthDay (6/3, Reinberg) reported that the survey of some "16,460 high school students" also revealed that "the abuse of prescription" medications "was widest among whites at 23 percent, followed by Hispanics at 17 percent, and black students at 12 percent."