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Drug Facts

More than four in 10 teens (42 percent) who have misused or abused a prescription drug obtained it from their parent’s medicine cabinet.
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64% of teens (age 12-17) that have abused prescription pain relievers say they got them from friends or relatives.
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Did you know that at around age 11 (5th and 6th grade) children start taking over-the-counter medicines without adult supervision? By age 16, approximately 90% report they have taken OTC medications on their own.
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Prescription medications are the drug of choice among 12 to 13 year olds.
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Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
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In 2007, the Drug Enforcement Administration found that abuse of the painkiller Fentanyl killed more than 1,000 people that year in the US. It is thirty to fifty times more powerful than heroin.
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More than half of teens (56 percent) indicate that it’s easy to get prescription drugs from their parent’s medicine cabinet.
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In the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an estimated 119 million Americans aged 12 or older used prescription psychotherapeutic drugs in the past year, representing 44.5 percent of the population.
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In 2011, poison centers managed over 140,000 cases of medicine poison exposures involving children ages 6 to 19.
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In a 2016 survey, the top prescription drugs abused by teens included the stimulants like Adderall (amphetamine mixed salts), tranquilizers, opioids like Vicodin (acetaminophen/hydrocodone), sedatives and cough medicines.
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About Arkansas Take Back

In 2010, a coalition led by State Drug Director Fran Flener, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel and both Arkansas districts of the U.S. Attorney’s Office launched an ongoing educational program to encourage everyone to “Monitor, Secure and Dispose” of their prescription medications. Numerous partners have made the success of this program possible.

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