Americans Are Increasingly Abusing Painkillers

Americans Are Increasingly Abusing Painkillers.
Rehab admissions correlated to alcohol, opiates (including instruction painkillers) and marijuana increased in the United States between 1999 and 2009, according to a redesigned national report. However, fewer people sought treatment for problems with cocaine and methamphetamine or amphetamines, the researchers noted more. One of the most staggering increases over the 10-year writing-room period: opiate admissions, mostly due to use of recipe opioids, which include painkillers such as oxycodone (Oxycontin) or Vicodin (hydrocodone).

The findings showed that 96 percent of the nearly 2 million admissions to therapy facilities that occurred in 2009 were interconnected to alcohol (42 percent), opiates (21 percent), marijuana (18 percent), cocaine (9 percent) and methamphetamine/amphetamines (6 percent) free female enhancers. The announce from the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) identified trends in the reasons why proletariat are admitted to reality abuse treatment facilities.

The SAMHSA report revealed that prescription drugs were to guilt for 33 percent of opiate rehab admissions in 2009 - up from just 8 percent a decade earlier. Alcohol addiction also remains a serious problem. It was the number one aim for substance abuse treatment among all major ethnic and racial groups, except Puerto Ricans, according to the report.