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Friday, April 22, 2005

Getting High With Prescribed Drug?

In a study done by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America have found that about 1 in every 5 teenagers had tried prescribed drugs to get high. Two of the main drugs (painkillers) that are being abused are Vicodin and OxyContin. There are also study that stated that about 1 in every 11 teens had abused drugs such as cough medicine. It is just amazing that prescribed drugs are the new trend nowadays to get high, instead of cocaine, ecstasy, etc. In the study for the abuses of Vicodin, it had found over 4.3 million teens had used it to get high; about 2.2 million teens, had experimented with cough syrup and other such products. This is due to the lack in knowledge about this type of drugs. It seem that we are more worried about more hazard drugs such as crack and cocaine that we forget about the other things that teens could use to get high such as prescribed drugs and inhalants. It just to show that teenagers today are willing to try anything to get high…. what is going to be the next product that are going to be abused? Rat poison? (being sarcastic there) For more statistics, please visit the address below.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1417&e=2&u=/ap/20050421/ap_on_he_me/drug_survey&sid=95832451

4 Comments:

  • Kevin created a post on the same topic below, so I think it's more appropriate to read his post and comment on it, rather that make a post that repeats what he did.

    By Blogger John Topoleski, at 11:02 AM  

  • For an intersting viewpoint on this story from Reason magazine go to http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/2005/04/this_just_in_ki_1.shtml

    (Reason is a libertarian magazine)

    By Blogger John Topoleski, at 11:04 AM  

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    By Blogger John Topoleski, at 11:04 AM  

  • Since it's the same topic as http://topostat.blogspot.com/2005/04/hey-kids-you-want-to-get-high.html I'm going to ask you to compare and contrast how the statistics are presented in the two stories.

    By Blogger John Topoleski, at 11:33 AM  

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