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addiction to prescription
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To begin, most people who take prescription medications take them responsibly. Although, the prescribed use or abuse of prescription drugs still remains a serious public health concern. Certain prescription drugs such Asopioids, which is a central nervous system depressants, becomes a stimulant when abused, and can alter the brain's activity and lead to dependence and possibly an addiction. An estimated 9 million people ages 12 and older used prescription drugs for non-medical reasons in 1999 and more than a one-forth of that number reported using prescription drugs non-medically for the first time in the year previous. We would like to turn around this tendency by raising awareness and promoting additional research on this topic to the p
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