From: Coming to terms with the nonmedical use of prescription medications
 | Person does not possess a legal prescription | Person does possess a legal prescription |
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MOTIVATED BY: | Â | Â |
• Desire to get high; create an altered state or experimentation. | Type 1: A problem behavior that is motivated by the desire to experiment, to get high, or to create an altered state with someone else's medication. | Type 3: A problem behavior that is motivated by the desire to experiment, to get high, or to create an altered state with one's own medication. |
RELATED BEHAVIORS: | Â | Â |
• Use in "recreational" settings |  |  |
• Use for reasons other than self-treatment |  |  |
• Use of scheduled medication with alcohol or other drugs simultaneously (co-ingestion) |  |  |
• May use alternate route of administration (IV, snorting) |  |  |
MOTIVATED BY: | Â | Â |
• Desire to alleviate symptoms of an actual or perceived health condition; uses medication for its pharmacological purpose (e.g., uses sleeping medication for insomnia) but does NOT involve mixing with alcohol or other drugs or non-therapeutic routes of administration. | Type 2: A problem behavior motivated by the desire to self-treat with someone else's medication. | Type 4: A problem behavior motivated by the desire to self-treat with one's own medication but without the approval of the prescribing professional. |
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• May include an increase in the recommended frequency, dose, or duration |  |  |