Facts About Prescription Drugs
FACT: Next to marijuana, the most common illegal drugs teens are using
to get high are prescription medications. Teens are turning away
from street drugs and using prescription drugs to get high. Indeed,
new users of prescription drugs have caught up with new users of
marijuana.
FACT: The CDC reports that from 1999 to 2004, unintentional poisoning
death from prescription drugs, sleeping pills, antidepressants and
tranquilizers grew 84 percent to 20,950 deaths, overtaking cocaine
and heroin combined as the leading cause of lethal overdose.
FACT: According to the Journal of the American Medical Association in
1998, a report found that prescription drugs kill about 106,000
Americans each year – that’s three times as many as are killed by
automobiles – making prescription drug death the fourth leading
killer after heart disease, cancer and stroke.
FACT: In 2005, 2.1 million teens abused prescriptions. Prescription drugs
are the most commonly abused drug among 12 and 13-year-olds.
FACT: The most recent research on deaths in the u.s. due to poisoning
over a five year period (1999- 2004) shows that nearly all poison
deaths in the country are attributed to drugs, and most drug
poisonings result from the abuse of prescription and illegal drugs.
(CDC, 2007)
FACT: Teens are abusing prescription drugs because they believe the myth
that these drugs provide a medically safe high.
FACT: Almost 23 percent of youths who used stimulants non-medically in
the past year experienced a major depressive episode in the past
year compared with 8.1 percent of youths who did not use
stimulants non-medically in that period.
Sources: http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/prescr_drg_abuse.html
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