The Academic Steroid: Nonmedical Use of Prescription Stimulants at a North Texas University
Description:
The goal of this study was to determine the extent, motivations, and justifications of nonmedical prescription stimulant use among the population at a large public university in the North Texas region. Participants consisted of 526 undergraduate students enrolled at the studied university during the spring and summer 2014 semesters. The findings of the study suggest that the nonmedical use by students was higher than the findings in much of the current literature, but was within the parameters …
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Date:
December 2014
Creator:
Pennington, Cody W.