Katie is a high school senior who spends part of her school week working at the Teen Health Center, where both staff and volunteers have been hearing more stories about prescription drug use among students.

"The center's coordinator, Mary Tonsmeire, said one of the first things she and other medical professionals did was to gather data to see if the anecdotal information they were hearing was showing a trend."

Tonsmeire then talked to doctors and pharmacists to find out if there were ways to keep track of where teens got prescription medication that didn't belong to them. She and her staff are working closely with high schools to include information about prescription drug use in health classes. Source: Juneau Empire

Labels: abuse, prescription_drugs, health_care

Posted By: Aspen Education Group