Gen’s women are abusing stimulants and excessive drink more than their male counterparts, and any other age group, as new studies have found.
Almost 37% of women between 18 and 25 reported excessive overlapping such as Addelall and Ritalin in the last year, more than double that women older than them reported, according to a study published last month in Jama Psychiatry.
Only 25% of women aged 26 to 34 reported inadequate use, study of the study. Women from 35 to 64, who according to researchers have seen the greatest increase in stimulating recipes, the least abuse 13.7%.
Men were not far behind women in drug abuse, which have become so popular since 2020 that they have national leg scarcity. Among men between 18 and 25 years of age who are prescribed by the medicine, 36.1% reported a misuse compared to 36.3% or 26 to 35 years and 22% or ages from 35 to 64 years.
Of the 83,762 men and women between 18 and 64 years included in the study, only a quarter of them reported misuse of medicines, including taking them without recourse or drinking higher or more frequent doses of those ordered.
While older women often do pills to handle daily life with families, many younger women suffer “feelings of insufficiency” so as not to meet social, physical, professional and relationship standards, experts say.
“There is pressure to have the perfect grades, the perfect body, being super popular in social networks and seems to have everything resolved,” said Stacey Ross, a specialist in mental health in Addictionsourse.net, to The Post.
“Some feel that they need to be ‘in’ constantly, and that the misuse of stimulants seems like a quick solution to stay there,” Ross said.
The authors of the study said that the findings highlight a need for prevention and intervention.
They observed the two types of medications most commonly used to treat ADHD and help with the concentration and alertness: amphetamines, which include Adderall and Vyvanse, and methylphenids such as Ritalin and Concerta. It was discovered that amphetamines, which stimulate the dopamine reward system that methylphenidates were abused three times higher.
Women historically were in poor condition. Presented and subdiagnosed with ADHD, but the gender gap has closed, especially since the pandemic, according to experts.
Alarming findings follow reports that young women are also affecting men for the first time.
A study published last week in JAMA or 267,843 men and women of 18 years of age or older found that 31.6% of women aged 18 to 25 reported to drink in excess, consuming four or more drinks one occasion, more than any other group.
The study compared male and women habits in two periods of time, 2017 to 2019 and 2021 to 2023. He found that attractive drinks for men collapsed almost 8 percentage points, from 37.7% to 29.9%. But women did not see such a fall, falling only 4.8 percent of the previous years.
Experts say that heavy alcohol consumption has become more acceptable to women and that they are increasingly directed through marketing and social networks campaigns, especially those with a higher socio -economic status.
“For women, there is still pressure to be” fun “, great” or “relaxed”, and also, that means drinking, “Ross said.
The disturbing findings occur in the midst of an increase in liver disease and mortality related to alcohol among young and middle -aged women than men.
