Adolescents' Prescription Stimulant Use and Adult Functional Outcomes: A National Prospective Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the prospective 17-year relationship between the medical and nonmedical use of prescription stimulants during adolescence (age 18 years) and educational attainment and substance use disorder (SUD) symptoms in adulthood (age 35 years).

Method

A survey was self-administered by nationally representative probability samples of US high school seniors from the Monitoring the Future study; 8,362 of these individuals were followed longitudinally from adolescence (age 18, high school senior years 1976-1996) to adulthood (age 35, 1993-2013).

Results

An estimated 8.1% reported medical use of prescription stimulants, and 16.7% reported nonmedical use of prescription stimulants by age 18 years. Approximately 43% of adolescent medical users of prescription stimu

SUBMITTER: McCabe SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5462599 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature