Digital Social Media, Youth, and Nonmedical Use of Prescription Drugs: The Need for Reform
Digital Social Media, Youth, and Nonmedical Use of Prescription Drugs: The Need for Reform
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DOI：
10.2196/jmir.2464
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发表时间：
2013-07-01
影响因子：
7.4
通讯作者：
Strathdee, Steffanie A.
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作者：
Mackey, Tim K.;Liang, Bryan A.;Strathdee, Steffanie A.
18岁的Ryan Haight的悲惨死亡凸显了非法在线非医疗使用处方药（NUPM）采购所带来的道德、公共卫生和青少年患者安全问题，导致了一项联邦法律的出台，以解决这一问题。然而，尽管发生了这一悲剧，并因此制定了法律，美国的全国妇女暴力流行病仍在继续升级，在青年和青少年中呈现出一种危险和日益增长的趋势。与青年NUPM相关的一个关键接入点是互联网。在这一脆弱的患者群体中，互联网的使用无处不在，包括新兴的和快速发展的技术，特别是社交媒体网络（如Facebook和Twitter）。这些不受管制的技术可能会对青少年的NUPM行为构成潜在风险。为了解决现行法规的局限性，促进网络安全，我们主张进行立法改革，专门解决通过社交媒体和其他新的网络平台推广NUPM的问题。使用更全面和现代化的联邦立法，预测未来的在线发展，对于实质性解决通过互联网发生的青少年NUPM行为至关重要。
The tragic death of 18-year-old Ryan Haight highlighted the ethical, public health, and youth patient safety concerns posed by illicit online nonmedical use of prescription drugs (NUPM) sourcing, leading to a federal law in an effort to address this concern. Yet despite the tragedy and resulting law, the NUPM epidemic in the United States has continued to escalate and represents a dangerous and growing trend among youth and adolescents. A critical point of access associated with youth NUPM is the Internet. Internet use among this vulnerable patient group is ubiquitous and includes new, emerging, and rapidly developing technologies-particularly social media networking (eg, Facebook and Twitter). These unregulated technologies may pose a potential risk for enabling youth NUPM behavior. In order to address limitations of current regulations and promote online safety, we advocate for legislative reform to specifically address NUPM promotion via social media and other new online platforms. Using more comprehensive and modernized federal legislation that anticipates future online developments is critical in substantively addressing youth NUPM behavior occurring through the Internet.