Top Health Concerns, Medications, and Drugs of Abuse Among Baby Boomers Highlighted in Infographic

Topics: Prescription drug abuse and Painkillers

Painkillers, such as oxycodone and morphine, and sedatives, like Valium® and Xanax®, are the top two types of drugs abused by Americans ages 48 to 66. This fact is highlighted in an infographic distributed by Assisted Living Today, which cautions against misuse of prescription drugs. The graphic also provides information on the medications most commonly prescribed to and used by people in this age group

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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.