Statistics on Prescription Drug Addiction?
Question by pink: Statistics on prescription drug addiction?
Does anyone know where to find stats on poeple actually addicted to prescription drugs, not just those that have used them at some point…that’s all I can seem to find. Doing a project…Thanks!!!
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Answer by TELL ME!
Each State complies it’s own statistics, the stats you will find are very marginal at best. The best place I have found was TFA’s web site
Answer by pure_genius
The DEA has estimated that there are roughly 11 million prescription drug abusers in America. I have never seen a report quantifying this number, but given that there are 130 million prescriptions of hydrocodone alone annually, that number seems reasonable.
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