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意识差距：青少年低估芬太尼威胁
根据密歇根大学的一项新研究，大多数美国八年级学生低估了使用芬太尼的危险。
来源:密歇根大学根据密歇根大学的一项新研究，大多数美国八年级学生低估了使用芬太尼的危险。
More than half, about 52%, did not believe that experimental use of fentanyl—a man-made opioid that can be more than 50 times stronger than heroin—carried a high level of danger, highlighting a critical gap in awareness that could increase overdose deaths among adolescents.
Each week in the United States, about 22 high school students die from a fentanyl overdose—roughly the size of a typical high school classroom.
The study, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, also found that around one-third did not believe regular fentanyl use carries a great risk.
The findings, published in JAMA Network Open, come from the long-running Monitoring the Future survey and highlight a gap in awareness—not a lack of fear—that researchers say prevention efforts must address.
“Our biggest finding is that most eighth graders simply don’t know that fentanyl can be lethal—and that gap, not a lack of fear, is the real issue,” said Richard Miech, principal investigator of the MTF study at U-M’s Institute for Social Research. “这些发现表明，努力加强和扩大有关芬太尼使用潜在影响的当前信息的重要性。”
该研究分析了 3,800 多名八年级、十年级和十二年级学生对芬太尼使用风险的看法。
“提高该年龄段人群对芬太尼使用致命危险的认识是减少死亡的关键策略，”米奇说。 “For example, warnings that students shouldn’t take counterfeit drugs because they may be laced with fentanyl won’t have much effect if students don’t know how dangerous fentanyl is.”
Miech 和同事还发现了不同人口群体之间的差异。