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Getting Pills At School One Reason Why Teens Abuse ADHD Drugs

While alcohol and marijuana remain the drugs of choice among teens, prescription drug use is climbing as kids turn to their parents’ medicine cabinets for a free high. Now medicated highs are even easier as kids use their own prescriptions for drug abuse.

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How Drugs Affect Your Sex Life

Believe it or not, but illicit drugs aren’t the only ones that can have a great impact on one's sex life. Many prescription drugs wreak havoc on the bodies sexual system. Statins and fibrates, which are used to treat high cholesterol, are a prime example.

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5 Reasons Prescription Addiction Turns to Heroin

With recent news and national surveys indicating that more and more prescription addicts are turning to heroin, we looked into the 5 main reasons why this is happening.

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Is There Really Such a Thing as a “Gateway Drug”?

Most people have some kind of understanding of the idea of a gateway drugs—drugs that that are likely to lead to the use of more dangerous, deadly and addictive drugs. But some people argue that the gateway concept does not exist. Is this true or is...

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Are We Overlooking the Threat of Prescription Stimulant Abuse?

Prescription stimulant abuse isn’t making the headlines but that doesn’t mean that parents should dismiss it as a threat to their children. Every child needs to learn how addictive these drugs can be.

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Is Your Loved One at Risk for an Overdose?

While it’s true that addiction is not restricted to any particular social, economic or cultural groups, a study of those who have overdosed could provide a description of those most at risk for this fate.

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Teens Misuse Cough Medicines ’Lean and DXM Without Knowing They’re Deadly and Addictive

Walk into any average-sized middle school or high school classroom in America. You’ll probably be looking at about 25 teenagers. One of those young people has probably already misused cough medicine to get high without realizing the dangers.

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Addiction to Opiates Fuels Flood of Heroin

Prescription Painkillers Now Serving as “Gateway” Drug An older street drug is making a market resurgence, thanks in large part to the widespread popularity of newer drugs, according to the Journal Gazette out of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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Ten Over The Counter Medicines Abused By Teens

Normally when parents worry about their teenage children using drugs, their concerns focus on the places where drugs are typically found: at school, on the street or at parties. But what if you found out that your child was able to get all the drugs he...

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Teens Abuse Prescription ADHD Drugs Too

They’re prescribed to kids and adults who supposedly have attention difficulties, but more and more teens are abusing prescription ADHD drugs. Whether they are diagnosed with attention deficit or not, kids are finding out that these drugs produce a keen...

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Is the Prescription Drug Abuse Drop an Indication of a Greater Addiction Issue?

A recent study shows prescription drug abuse among eighteen to twenty-five-year-olds dropped 14% this year, yet heroin abuse is on the rise.

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Did Drug Abuse Drop Among Young Adults Or Has The Problem Shifted

A recent survey shows prescription drug use is down fourteen percent among adults ages eighteen to twenty-five, yet some addiction experts speculate that the problem has simply shifted over to different drugs, particularly heroin.

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Everyone Is Affected By Prescriptions Not Just Teens

We all know the dangers of teen drug abuse and with the recent surge in pharmaceutical popularity, parents often have to be more concerned about what they have in their own medicine cabinets than with illicit drug use at school or parties.

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Next Progression Of Prescription Addiction Is Heroin Abuse

In recent years, prescription drug abuse has skyrocketed with users heading down a darker path than they ever imagined. The most recent fork in the road has led them to heroin use—a place many users swore they would never go—for the plain and simple...

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Opana Overtakes Oxycontin as Prescription Abuse Surges in U.S.

When drug enforcement agencies and the pharmaceutical companies make changes to increase the difficulty in obtaining prescription pain medication and altering it to get high, drug addicts find new ways to get their fix.

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Adderall Abuse Becoming More Popular Among Teens

There are plenty of stories covering the phenomenon of students abusing Adderall. Young people in high school and college are relying on Adderall as a stimulant to help them stay up long hours and focus on studies far beyond their normal limits.

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Despite Dangers Adderall Remains Popular Study Drug For Students

Go to any college campus and ask a student if he (or she) knows anyone who uses Adderall. It is very unlikely that you will find someone who will say no. Maybe they don’t use it themselves, but they will know others who do.

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Conversion From Prescription Drugs To Street Opiates

Heroin Abuse Increases with First Time Users Starting at Younger Age As amazing as it might seem, there are some heroin users who maintain their addictions over decades.

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Parents Would Never Guess that Prescription Drug Abuse Can Be Abetted by Family and Friends

Parents may spend plenty of time talking to their children about the dangers of drinking and driving and some may warn their kids against smoking marijuana. But few take the time to advise their children to stay away from prescription drugs.

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Skittles Party By Teens Is Not What It Seems

A Skittles party could take the form of a home filled with teenagers where everyone brings all the prescription medications they have on hand and pool them. Then anyone at the party who wants to abuse a pill just dips in and grabs whatever they want.