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Alcohol and marijuana: highest rate of drug abuse Alcohol and marijuana have the highest rate of abuse among all drugs. In the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) reported: 14.5 million Americans aged 12 or older had experienced alcohol dependence or abuse. 12…
The dictionary simply defines drug abuse as the habitual taking of addictive or illegal drugs. But what does this really mean? Today, we discuss how drug use can lead to abuse and commonly abused substances – legal and illegal. When Drug Use Leads To Drug Abuse One way to understand drug abuse, according to this…
Have people who are overcoming heroin or opioid addiction been “buped” by the drug industry? Buprenorphine, or “bupe” for short, is the drug commonly used to treat heroin abuse. Similar to the way heroin reacts to the brain, buprenorphine attaches to the brain’s opioid receptors, but it does not cause the user to experience the…
Recently the Partnership for Drug Free North Carolina reported that 8 of 10 poisoning deaths are related to the abuse or misuse of medications in North Carolina, a rate that is higher than the national average. The organization also reported that 2 North Carolina counties, Surry and Stokes, have even more alarming statistics. The Partnership’s…