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400,000. 400,000. 2,000,000. "According to the 2006 Monitoring the Future study, prescription drug use among teenagers is second only to marijuana, and is second to none among 12 and 13 year olds. Every day, an estimated 2,500 teenagers abuse a pain reliever for the first time .“
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"According to the 2006 Monitoring the Future study, prescription drug use among teenagers is second only to marijuana, and is second to none among 12 and 13 year olds. Every day, an estimated 2,500 teenagers abuse a pain reliever for the first time.“ -Prescription Drug Abuse Info
“The growing population of aging Baby Boomers are also prime candidates for prescription drug abuse, intentional or not, as are the elderly. Once someone begins taking a number of pills for things like managing blood pressure and cholesterol, it becomes easier to take narcotic pain killers, prescription sleep aids and other, more addictive drugs” -Prescription Drug Abuse Info
COMMON SAFE?!
There was a 154%increase in opiate prescriptions from 1992 to 2002, compared to a 54% increase in general prescriptions. -- Seppala