Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 9 , Pages 1020-1029 , September 2008

Prescription Pain Reliever Abuse and Dependence Among Adolescents: A Nationally Representative Study

,Accepted 24 March 2008.

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 This work was supported by research grants from the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health to Li-Tzy Wu (DA019901 and DA019623). The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive and the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research provided the public use data files for NSDUH, which was sponsored by SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies. The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and not of any sponsoring agency. The authors thank Amanda McMillan for proofreading the manuscript.

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doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e31817eed4d

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 9 , Pages 1020-1029 , September 2008

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