One in five US teens abuses prescription drugs: study

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Source: afp

AFP - One in five US high school students has abused prescription drugs, including powerful medications such as OxyContin and Percocet, a study published Thursday shows.

White teens were the most likely to say they had abused prescription drugs, with 23 percent admitting they had taken a drug such as OxyContin, Percocet, Xanax or Ritalin without a doctor's prescription, the study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found.
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The 2009 study, which surveyed 16,000 US high school students, also found that nearly three-quarters of US teens have used alcohol, more than a third -- 37 percent -- have used marijuana, 6.4 percent have used cocaine, nearly seven percent have used ecstasy and four percent have use methamphetamine.
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The findings come from the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), which has been conducted every other year since 1991.

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[Stuart G]

1. Very Important, very sad...these teens are some of our

future drug addicts. Yea, lots of people can get addicted to presciption meds..Oh, Micheal Jackson, Elvis..Heath Ledger..others?
Many million others, past, present and future..
.And these are in some ways harder to kick than booze...

What the hell is going on in this country????