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Article: SUBSTANCE ABUSE INCREASES RICH BUY PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, POOR USE METH OR HEROIN, REPORT SAYS.(News)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- July 27, 2005
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Byline: Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News
Coloradans with money or health insurance are abusing painkillers and other prescription drugs like never before, while the state's poor continue to opt for heroin, crack cocaine and methamphetamines.
Some 15 million Americans abuse painkillers, depressants or stimulants, and one in 10 teens has abused a prescription drug, says a new report by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
The number of Americans abusing prescription drugs tripled between 1990 and 2003, it says.
In Colorado, there has been "a dramatic increase" in prescription- drug abuse, though ...