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JUNE 2023
Video: Prescription medicine: Could you have a problem?
It’s a national story that leads the news nearly every night. Opioid addiction rates continue to rise. And opioid deaths, particularly from fentanyl, are increasing at an alarming rate. For many of us, opioid addiction is no longer something that happens to other people. It can happen to anyone. According to the NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse, 75% of people who began abusing opioids in the 2000s reported that their first opioid was a prescription drug.1
If you think that you or someone close to you might be in danger of slipping into prescription drug misuse, this video can provide you with some useful information.
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1NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse. Prescription opioids and heroin research report.
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