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Why do you think the U.S. has the highest rate of drug use among adolescents in the world?

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Prescription drug abuse is the fastest growing drug problem in the United States. The increase in unintentional drug overdose death rates in recent years (Figure 1) has been driven by increased use of a class of prescription drugs called opioid analgesics (1).

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