If you use prescription drugs at age 13 or younger you have a one in four chance of having a lifetime problem. The drugs can be prescription stimulants such as Ritalin and Adderall or painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin. With drugs like Ambian the chances of lifetime problems are lower, but you still might wind up in drug rehab.
 
There are plenty of kids that age using prescription drugs to get high and one in four will need drug detox and drug rehab. If they don’t get help early, they could be addicted to drugs for a long time. The average age people enter drug rehab is often in their 30’s. If your 14 or 15-year-old is raiding the medicine cabinet, or one of his friends is, then you will have trouble as they get older and they might be in their 30’s before they really get the help they need.

In the report from the Center for Substance Abuse Research there is no mention of these drugs leading to taking other drugs – but there should be: OxyContin can be, and often is, replaced with heroin and Ritalin can be, and is, replaced with cocaine when the OxyContin and Ritalin are are unavailable or too expensive. And if you think kids that young aren’t using prescription drugs to get high, read the news.

People don’t think prescription drugs are dangerous because they came from a doctor. But nothing could be further from the truth. They can lead to a lifetime of dependence, unless it is addressed with a drug detox or drug rehab program.

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