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Half of college students who misuse prescription stimulants have SUDs
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30152
Subject(s) - psychiatry , medical prescription , prescription drug misuse , attention deficit hyperactivity disorder , psychology , attention deficit disorder , medicine , clinical psychology , nursing , opioid use disorder , receptor , opioid
Nonmedical use of stimulants is misuse, and in the college setting, where students may be misusing these medications in order to stay up late and study, it turns out that most, compared to controls, actually have psychiatric disorders, including attention‐ deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to recent research.