Published Tuesday in the journal JAMA Network Open, the study analyzed data collected between 20 by Monitoring the Future, a federal survey that has measured drug and alcohol use among secondary school students nationwide each year since 1975. A major takeaway of the new study is that misuse and sharing of stimulant prescription medications is happening in middle and high schools, not just college,” said Camenga, who was not involved with the study. Deepa Camenga, associate director of pediatric programs at the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. Students also overuse medications or “use a pill that someone gave them due to a sense of stress around academics - they are trying to stay up late and study or finish papers,” said pediatrician Dr.
Nonmedical uses of stimulants can include taking more than a normal dose to get high, or taking the medication with alcohol or other drugs to boost a high, prior studies have found. “In some schools there was little to no misuse of stimulants, while in other schools more than 25% of students had used stimulants in nonmedical ways,” said McCabe, who is also a professor of nursing at the University of Michigan School of Nursing. Prescriptions for ADHD treatments surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, CDC report shows
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