Prescription Drugs and Young Adults

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The paper examines drug abuse in the United States, which is a significant and prevalent problem. The paper explains that drug dependence and addiction are imposing a variety of intra-personal, interpersonal, social and economic consequences. The paper discusses that unfortunately, American society is not acknowledging that much of this dependence and addiction involves prescription drugs, since the focus has always been on illegal drugs.

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"In terms of the consequences for young adults, the damage inflicted by drug abuse cannot be truly measured, for it is impossible to put a dollar value upon the suffering that dependence and addiction inflict. But as Baum (1997) notes, some idea of the harm drug abuse causes can be obtained by pondering the fact that each year, drug-related problems cost one-hundred and sixty-six billion dollars."

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