Teens can get perscription meds faster than ordering a pizza !
Teens can get their hands on perscription medications faster than they can get fast food. 2,500 teenagers per day use a prescription drug to get high for the first time. Typically they are getting the drugs in their homes because all they have to do is open a cupboard, drawer, or medicine cabinet.
Usually a teens desire for getting high outweighs their perception of the risks:
- 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined
- 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15
- There are as many new abusers age 12 to 17 of prescription drugs as there are of marijuana
No one wakes up one day and say's " I think I'll become a drug addict today", if a teen is vuneralbe to the disease, eventually the diseae will be in control of the teen.
As stated in the AA Big Book " Addiction is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind"
For more information visit: http://www.drugfree.org/NotInMyHouse/default.aspx
