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What percent of teens have taken a perscription drug without a doctor's consent?
20%
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Abruptly stopping depressents can cause what?
Seizures
100
True or False? Street drugs are safer than perscription drugs
False
200
In a 2008 study, how many 8th graders has abused vicodin?
2.9%
200
Increasing the dose of Vicodin can lead to what kind of damage?
liver damage
200
With prescription drugs, you can become as ________ as you can with street drugs.
Addicted
300
What percentage of 12th graders abuse vicodin?
10%
300
Abusing opiods can lead to decreased cognitive function, decreased respritory function, coma or......
death
300
Sharing prescription drugs is considered what?
breaking the law
400
How many teenagers and young adults become new abusers of prescription drugs?
3 million
400
Abusing simulants can cause seizures or
heart failure
400
What are the four different ways to take prescription drugs?
oral, tablets, caps, and injection
500
More than 20 million prescriptions are filled each year, an increase of more than 72 percent since what year?
1995
500
When Valium is abused or used in high doses it can cause death or.....
unconsciousness
500
How are prescription drugs most commonly sold?
On the streets