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Over the last few years, Winnebago County, Illinois officials have seen a disturbing trend related to adolescent and teen drug abuse: younger and younger people are dying from drug overdoses.

“’We’re noticing that the trend is getting young and younger. We actually this year have had a 14 year old and a 19 year old die as a result of either opiates and or heroin overdoses,’ said Sue Fiduccia, Winnebago County Coroner. You may think ‘not my teen, they would never search for drugs,’ but kids no longer need to actively search for a dealer, the drugs come to them.” (Source: WIFR-Channel 23)

Schoolyards and street corners are now popular places for buying and selling drugs. Surveys have found that most high school kids know who they’d need to talk to if they wanted to buy drugs. And most of the time, those people are fellow students.

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According to the Reuters news service, new research has revealed a rise in drug-related deaths (including both prescription medications and illicit substances) throughout the United States.

The researchers who discovered the increases in drug-related deaths based their study on data that had been collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. The researchers were able to calculate the percentages of individual from different age groups and races who died as a result of accidental poisonings.

According to the researchers, accidental poisonings due to drug overdoses during the first decade of the 21st century were more than 10 times higher than they were in the late 1960s.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse reported that in 2009, about 7 million people were users of pain relievers, tranquilizers, stimulants and sedatives - all for nonmedical purposes.

Individuals who feel they have developed a dependence on prescription medication may want to seek substance abuse help from a drug rehab center.
 

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