Adolescents who use prescription narcotics to get high are most likely to obtain the drugs by
A)buying them on the street from drug dealers.
B)buying them at school from classmates who are selling their own medications.
C)stealing them from the medicine cabinets of their parents and their friends' parents.
D)making up stories of being in pain to get prescriptions for the drugs from their doctors.

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Studies have shown that the majority of adolescents who abuse prescription narcotics obtain them by stealing them from medicine cabinets of their own home, their friends' homes, or their parents' homes. Therefore, option C is the best choice. While buying from classmates (B) and buying on the street (A) are also common, they are less prevalent than stealing from medicine cabinets. Making up stories to get prescriptions from doctors (D) is also a possibility, but adolescents are less likely to go this route than to simply steal them from already available sources.

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