TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Nonmedical prescription drug use among US young adults by educational attainment
JO  - Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
A1  - Martins, Silvia S.
A1  - Kim, June H.
A1  - Chen, Lian-Yu
A1  - Levin, Deysia
A1  - Keyes, Katherine M.
A1  - Cerdá, Magdalena
A1  - Storr, Carla L.
SP  - 713
EP  - 724
VL  - 50
IS  - 5
N2  - PURPOSE: Little is known about nonmedical use of prescription drugs among non-college-attending young adults in the United States. <br><br>METHODS: Data were drawn from 36,781 young adults (ages 18-22 years) from the 2008-2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health public use files. The adjusted main effects for current educational attainment, along with its interaction with gender and race/ethnicity, were considered. <br><br>RESULTS: Compared to those attending college, non-college-attending young adults with at least and less than a HS degree had a higher prevalence of past-year nonmedical use of prescription opioids [NMUPO 13.1 and 13.2 %, respectively, vs. 11.3 %, adjusted odds ratios (aORs) 1.21 (1.11-1.33) and 1.25 (1.12-1.40)], yet lower prevalence of prescription stimulant use. Among users, regardless of drug type, non-college-attending youth were more likely to have past-year disorder secondary to use [e.g., NMUPO 17.4 and 19.1 %, respectively, vs. 11.7 %, aORs 1.55 (1.22-1.98) and 1.75 (1.35-2.28)]. Educational attainment interacted with gender and race: (1) among nonmedical users of prescription opioids, females who completed high school but were not enrolled in college had a significantly greater risk of opioid disorder (compared to female college students) than the same comparison for men; and (2) the risk for nonmedical use of prescription opioids was negligible across educational attainment groups for Hispanics, which was significantly different than the increased risk shown for non-Hispanic whites. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: There is a need for young adult prevention and intervention programs to target nonmedical prescription drug use beyond college campuses.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0933-7954
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-014-0980-3
ID  - ref1
ER  -