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CDC Reports 1 in 5 High School Students Have Abused Prescription Drugs

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

From the CDC – One  in 5 U.S. high school students say they have ever taken a prescription drug without a doctor’s prescription, according to the 2009 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  This is the first year the survey assessed prescription drug abuse among high school students.  The YRBS has been conducted every other year since 1991.

The survey asked if they’d ever taken a prescription drug such as OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin, Adderall, Ritalin, or Xanax, without a doctor’s prescription.

While this is alarming, it shouldn’t be surprising, frankly.  Prescription drugs have been pushed on Americans for every feeling or malady imaginable and drug companies have marketed their products (often fraudulently) to doctors and consumers to get people to buy them.  So if millions of American adults think taking these drugs are okay, then of course our children will follow suit.

This is still in the beginning stages of the epidemic, as more people continue to seek drug rehab centers for prescription drug addiction than ever.  If you or someone you love is in need of help for being dependent on prescriptions or other drugs, contact us today for help finding a successful addiction recovery program.

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Synthetic Drugs Creating New Addictions Europe

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

Partially from JoinTogether Online - 

  Synthetic drugs like the marijuana analogue Spice and mephedrone — similar to the banned khat — have become prominent drugs of abuse within the last year, and experts say that similar “legal high” drugs are coming down the pike, the BBC reported April 23.The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) said that new synthetics are being developed with “unprecedented speed”; the drugs closely mimic currently illegal substances but have often avoided government regulation, although the U.K. has recently banned Spice and mephedrone.

EMCDDA said it identified 24 new substances last year, up from 13 in 2008.

“The appearance of a large number of new unregulated synthetic compounds marketed on the Internet as ‘legal highs’ or ‘not for human consumption’ and specifically designed to circumvent drug controls presents a growing challenge to current approaches to monitoring, responding to and controlling the use of new psychoactive substances,” said the EMCDDA in its annual report.

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The biggest problem here isn’t the ability to regulate drugs, it is the ability to reduce the demand for these drugs in many cultures.  Drug treatment programs are continually playing catch-up and schools are tyring to find the most effective prevention programs, at least they should be.  Policy changes for drug rehab centers and related activities are needed to provide funding for facilities and organizations that actually can demonstrate change.

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