Teen Health

According to an article published in emaxhealth.com-In a comparison of two drugs prescribed to treat teenagers dependent on heroin and other opioids, the drug buprenorphine was more effective, especially in treatment retention, according to a study in the October issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

The use of heroin among adolescents has more than doubled in the past ten years, and the use of prescription opiates, including controlled release oxycodone (OxyContin) and hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen (Vicodin), has also increased, according to background information in the article. Opiates are the second most commonly abused class of illicit drugs among adolescents, second only to marijuana. Despite the need to identify effective treatments, virtually no research has been conducted to systematically characterize or evaluate treatment interventions for adolescent heroin and opioid abusers.

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