Teens 3X more likely to get addicted to painkillers

Younger teenagers are at higher risk of becoming dependent on prescription drugs within a year of when they began using them for non-medical reasons, a new study suggests. The findings are based on a nationally representative sample of 12- to 21-year-olds taken each year between 2002 and 2013. Out of about 42,000 respondents, researchers found that 14- and 15-year-olds are two to three times more likely to become opioid dependent within...
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