Over One Half Of Adults Misuse Prescriptions, Study Finds.

reports that according to a new study released yesterday by Quest Diagnostics, over one half of adults and 44 percent of children drug tested at a national clinical lab in 2015 “misused their prescription medications.” The study found that the rate of misuse may “skew higher than what would be found in the general U.S. population,” and that the drugs most often misused by patients included “amphetamines for youth 17 and under...benzodiazepines and anti-anxiety medications for adults 25 and older, followed by opioid painkillers.” The study involved over three million test results and checked for 44 drugs. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/07/25/more-than-half-of-adults-misuse-medications-study-finds/