Prescription Drug Abuse
When abused, many of today’s prescription drugs can mimic the effects of heroin,
meth and other street drugs. Your kids know this, and you should too.
About this frightening new trend...
- Teens are moving away from street drugs and using prescription medications to get high.1
- Next to marijuana, prescription drug abuse is the
most common form of drug abuse among today’s
teens.1
- More Valley teens are dying from prescription drug overdoses than meth, heroin and cocaine combined.9
- Teens believe the myth that prescription drugs are “safer” than street drugs.2
- This new trend is dangerous, resulting in addiction overdose and even death.
Over half of the 1.5 million drug abuse related emergency room visits in 2005 involved prescription drugs. 3 |
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“Our kids are doing things we never even dreamed of doing.”
---Tammy, lost her son to painkiller overdose
More than one-third of teens say they feel some pressure to abuse prescription drugs and nine percent say using prescription drugs to get high is an important part of fitting in with their friends.1
One-third of teens believe there is “nothing wrong” with using prescription medications without a prescription “Once in a while”.5
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