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- Every day 2,500 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time.(Source: Partnership for a Drug Free America)
- Nearly half (49 percent) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs. (Source: Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University)
- Every day 2,500 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time.(Source: Partnership for a Drug Free America)
- 60 percent of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15. (Source: Partnership for a Drug Free America
- 45 percent of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction. (Source: Misuse of Prescription Drugs. national Surveys on Drug Use and Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. 2006)
- 12- to 17-year-olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined. (Source: Partnership for a Drug Free America)
- There are as many new abusers age 12 to 17 of prescription drugs as there are of marijuana (Source: Partnership for a Drug Free America)
