The survey also showed that Whites (23 percent) and Hispanics (26 percent) were more apt to share prescription pain medicines than were African Americans (14 percent). Women were more apt than men to share antibiotics (24 percent vs 12 percent).
People seemed most willing to share prescription medicine when the medication came from a family member, they had a prescription for a particular medication but ran out of it or did not have it with them, or they had an emergency.
SOURCE: American Journal of Public Health, June 2008.
