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The US makes up 5 percent of the world’s population and consumes approximately 80 percent of the world’s prescription opioid drugs. Many people take prescription medications responsibly; however, an estimated 18 million people have misused such medications at least once in the past year.What is prescription drug abuse?Prescription drug abuse includes everything from taking someone else’s prescription painkiller for your backache to snorting or injecting ground-up pills to get high. Drug abuse ca …

Fentanyl fuels rapid rise in overdoses Fentanyl is a highly addictive synthetic opiate pain reliever, often prescribed for severe injury or post-surgery recovery. While it eliminates pain quickly, its extreme potency, 50x stronger than heroin and 100x stronger than morphine, contributes to the alarming Fentanyl overdose statistics seen nationwide. Fentanyl is one of the most dangerous and widely abused drugs and is contributing to the alarming number of overdoses, and poses a risk for  …