What Are the Prescription of Drug Abuse Facts and Figures?

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The Center of Disease Control reports that prescription medications are responsible for more overdose deaths than illegal substances such as cocaine and heroin. According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the number of people who find treatment for pain killer abuse increased fourfold in the span of a decade (1998 – 2008). The number of emergency room visits related to prescription medications also increased 97% in four years (2004 -2008). In 2009, an average of 6,027 individuals a day abused pain relievers for the first time.

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Epic Teen Drug Abuse Facts – Just some simple teen drug abuse facts along with some epic music. I didn’t make this video, a friend did.

 

New dates. National Drug Facts Week begins Jan. 28, 2013

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The third annual National Drug Facts Week will be held Jan. 28 through Feb. 3, 2013, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced today. This week-long observance will bring together teens and …
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The Partnership at Drugfree.org, GRAMMY Foundation® and MusiCares

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Winners will be revealed during the third annual National Drug Facts Week, January 28 – February 3, 2013, coordinated by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health. "We are excited to collaborate with the …
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11 Responses to What Are the Prescription of Drug Abuse Facts and Figures?

  • Phuryy says:

    100 people? died last year from peanuts.
    0 died from smoking weed (:

  • Phuryy says:

    100 people died last year from peanuts.
    0? died from smoking weed (:

  • Gmanthekid says:

    “IT’S TIME TO DO SOMETHING.”

    My? response: smoke weed bro.

  • vegito51 says:

    legalize? it

  • vegito51 says:

    yeah man,? spread the love

  • vegito51 says:

    ?
    sure do whatever you want with it.

  • Hopemom1able says:

    I have a nonprofit called “Preventing Teen? Tragedy” I am doing a powerpoint for schools RIGHT NOW for schools on the TEEN BRain. May I add your video to it? THis is well done!

  • Intoactionrehab says:

    The statistics shown is alarming. Drastic but positive steps to help our youth against? addiction.

  • w1Lh0 says:

    have you seen many reports people dying to pot overdose? It’s not? poison, and I’m not saying it’s not poison because it’s a plant. I’m saying that it’s really not poisonous.
    Even an apple is more poisonous than pot.

  • 1fuckitthuglife says:

    i found this video really useful , can i use it for an english project ? please i would really appreciate it :D?

  • cathyeli says:

    i hate it when pot smokers try to make the argument? that weed is not poison because it’s a plant… there are a ton of poisonous plants out there….

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