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Evidence-Based Recommendations For The Management Of Prescription Stimulants Abuse (Psa) Among College Students, Marie O. Owoeye
Evidence-Based Recommendations For The Management Of Prescription Stimulants Abuse (Psa) Among College Students, Marie O. Owoeye
Master of Science in Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Projects
Prescription stimulants have been identified as one of the most written psychoactive prescription medications found among college students. Likewise, prescription stimulant abuse (PSA) has greatly increased in the college campuses (5.4% in 2003 to 9.3% in 2013). Several factors such as (a) diversion and sharing of prescribed stimulants among families, friends and others; (b) lack of knowledge about the risks associated with prescription stimulants; (c) polysubstance use; (c) academic enhancement; and (d) stress from ineffective coping skills and life events, have been identified as contributing factors to the increase in PSA among college students. Various critical health-related symptoms such as …