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Intro:
Public Health Population-based Issue (10 pts)
The public health population-based health concern in the United States is Substance Use Disorder (SUD). According to the National Institute of Mental Health (2023) “Substance use disorder (SUD) is a treatable mental disorder that affects a person’s brain and behavior, leading to their inability to control their use of substances like legal or illegal drugs, alcohol, or medications” (para 1). SUD of prescription drugs can lead to very bad health outcomes and this is a very big issue in adolescents causing them to lead to brain damage issues or even death from overdose. I plan to mainly focus on White females adolescents with SUD of Prescription medicines, such as pain pills, stimulants, or anxiety pills in New York State. This problem and population is of interest to me because working and growing up in The Bronx, either females my age or younger either come into my job as a patient with severe substance abuse disorder or I see them on the street. This makes me recognize how their lives just turned out very different from my own. This interest has made me want to learn more on this issue and try to find a way to combat SUD in white females of adolescent age with prescription medication addictions particularly in New York State.