Adolescents Who Use Prescription Narcotics to Get High Are Most

question 83

Multiple Choice

Adolescents who use prescription narcotics to get high are most likely to obtain the drugs by

• A)buying them on the street from drug dealers.
• B)buying them at school from classmates who are selling their own medications.
• C)stealing them from the medicine cabinets of their parents and their friends' parents.
• D)making up stories of being in pain to get prescriptions for the drugs from their doctors.

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Nervous System

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