What is The Medicine Abuse Project,
nike air force? It is a multi-year effort to prevent half a million teens from abusing medicines within the next five years.
Why should you care about preventing teens from medicine abuse? Check out these startling facts from The Medicine Abuse Project’s website:
Every day, more than 2,000 kids abuse prescription drugs for the first time.
90 percent of addictions start in the teen years.
One in six teens has used a prescription drug to get high or change their mood,
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44 percent of teens have at least one friend who abuses prescription drugs.
Teens say it’s easy to get prescription drugs - 65 percent say they get meds from home or friends, 30 percent from someone else, 31 percent from school.
Only 6 percent of parents of teens say they have a child who abused medicine,
nike roshe run, however 10 percent of teens admit to misusing/abusing medicines in the past six months.
One person dies every 19 minutes from drug overdoses in the United States.
More Americans die from drug overdoses than in car crashes and this increasing trend is driven by prescription pain killers.
After reading the facts, now it's time to take action! Take your head out of the sand and don't be your teen’s drug dealer.
Here are some valuable tips provided by The Medicine Abuse Project about what parents should do.
Educate yourself Visit drugfree.org and MedicineAbuseProject.org for information, tools, resources and support.
Communicate the risks of prescription medicine abuse to your teens. Kids who learn a lot about the risks of drugs at home are up to 50 percent less likely to use drugs than those who do not get that critical message from their parents.
Safeguard your medicine. Keep prescription medicine in a secure place, count and monitor the number of pills you have and lock them up — and ask your friends and family members to do the same.
Get help. If you think your teen has a problem with prescription medicine abuse, please visit drugfree.org/timetogethelp or call the Parents Toll-Free Helpline to speak to a parent specialist at 1-855-DRUGFREE
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