CDC: 1 in 5 High Schoolers Abuse Legal Drugs

Student designs poster to educate people about prescription drug abuse
A Grayling High School Senior lent her talents to a task force focused on stopping the spread of prescription drug abuse. Kelsey Neuberger designed a poster for the Crawford Partnership for Substance Abuse Awareness, which says, “This Sharing is Not Caring: Stop Prescription Drug Abuse.”

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Drug treatment not yet focus of task force
COLUMBUS — There was talk of criminal investigations, dangerous drug databases, unlawful pain clinics and more during the Ohio Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force’s inaugural meetings. But there was one cornerstone to the epidemic’s cure that Gov. Ted Strickland would have not seen in the task force’s initial report: drug rehab.

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CDC: 1 in 5 high schoolers abuse legal drugs
(CNN) — One in five U.S. high school students say they have ever taken a prescription drug such as OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin, Adderall, Ritalin, or Xanax, without a physician’s prescription, a new survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found.

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