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September 19, 2008
Experts say parents should make efforts to restrict access to prescription medications
The Los Angeles Times (9/15, Healy) reports that, "unwittingly, parents who leave...medications unsecured and unmonitored are tempting their children -- and their children's friends -- to try drugs they have heard and read about at school, in movies, and on the Internet."
For some teenagers, "the price is right, and the risks -- of scoring the drugs at least -- are low." Experts say that parents should "dispose of prescription" medications "that remain unused after their purpose has been served."
For "medications [that] need to be retained for future use, experts say parents should keep an inventory of them," then "secure them, either under lock and key, or by keeping them where a curious child won't find them."
Related Links:
- "Youths' drug of choice? Prescription," Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2008.
Posted by admin at September 19, 2008 01:12 PM