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E-mail: AWARERX@NABP.NET

Call: 855-B-AWARxE (855/229-2793)

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AWARxE
1600 Feehanville Drive
Mount Prospect, IL 60056

In an emergency

If you are experiencing a life-threatening situation or an emergency as a result of prescription medications or over-the-counter medications, please contact 911, your local or regional hospital, or your physician’s emergency services.

If you need help with prescription drug abuse:

If you make an error with your medication

If you mistakenly take medication that is not prescribed for you, or if you have taken too much medication, prescription or non-prescription, call the poison control center immediately. Call 800/222-1222 from anywhere in the United States to be connected to a poison control center. The call is free, private, and answered by experts 24/7/365.


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    Counterfeit medications can be deadly. Many fake drugs contain too little, too much, or the wrong medicine, and may contain dangerous ingredients such as rat poison.

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    Every year, more than 15,000 people die from overdoses of prescription painkillers.

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    Counterfeiters are selling fakes of many kinds of drugs, including pills claiming to treat heart disease, arthritis, asthma, AIDS and cancer.

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    Many fake drugs are made to look like the real medication—it can be very difficult to tell them apart.

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    Three in five teens say prescription pain relievers are easy to get from parent’s medicine cabinets.

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    Internet drug outlets often sell dangerous counterfeit drugs, although they claim the drugs are real, and use high tech Web sites that look legitimate.

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    More than 50% of people aged 12 and older who abused prescription drugs in 2010 and 2011 got them from friends or family for free.

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    One in four teens knows at least one friend or classmate who abuses prescription drugs, as reported in a 2010 national survey.