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Influence Of Abortion Stigma, Behaviour Pattern And Distress Tolerance On Substance Use Amongst Adolescents
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1.2 Statement of Problem
Substance use by young people is on the increase, and initiation of use
is occurring at ever-younger ages. Patterns of substance use over the
past 20 years have been documented by two surveys--the National
Household Survey on Drug Abuse conducted by the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in 1998, and the
Monitoring the Future Study conducted by the National Institute on Drug
Abuse (NIDA,) in 1996.
The explosive increase in the misuse
of prescription and nonprescription medications has been referred to as
“pharming.†The term Generation Rx has been used to describe this
increase in prescription-drug misuse among the current generation of
youths. In 2007, 9.5% of adolescents aged 12 to 17 years indicated that
they had used an illicit drug (marijuana, cocaine, heroin,
hallucinogens, inhalants, or psychotherapeutics used nonmedically)
within the past month. While marijuana was the most-used illicit drug
(6.7%), past-month nonmedical use of psychotherapeutics (pain relievers,
tranquilizers, stimulants, and sedatives) came in second (3.3%).
Although past-month nonmedical use of prescription medications among
adolescents declined slightly from 2002 to 2007 (4.0% and 3.3%,
respectively), this should still be an area of great concern and
attention in the medical community, (Flisher A, Parry CDH, Evan J,
Muller M, Lombard C, 2003)
Drug use remains a significant
problem in the United States, however adolescent drug use is
particularly damaging as such use can affect the physical and mental
development of younger people and can impact their opportunities later
in life. In 1991, approximately 30.4 percent of those in school grades
8, 10, and 12 had used illicit drugs at some point in their lives. This
number reached a high of 43.3 percent in 1997, but dropped back to
around 33 percent in 2017. As of 2017, marijuana was still one of the
most used drugs among adolescents with around 80 percent of 12th graders
perceiving marijuana as fairly easy to obtain, compared to 27.3 percent
of those perceiving the same for cocaine .
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study assessed the influence of abortion stigma, behaviour pattern and distress tolerance on substance use amongst adolescents. In determining the influence of of abortion stigma, behaviour pattern and distress tolerance on substance use amongst adolescents, four (4) scales were used namely; Abortion stigma Scale by Shellenberg, KM, Levandowski, B., Hessini, L. (2014), Type A behaviour scale by (Omoluabi, 1997), Distress tolerance scale by Simon and Gaher’s (2005), and Substance use s ... Continue reading---
