- Fatal drug overdoses more than tripled to 52,404 between 1999 and 2015, and the majority of them involved an opioid.
- In 2015, more than 1.1 million people between the ages of 12 and 25 reported misusing prescription pain relievers in the past month, and 238,000 had used heroin in the past year.
- “The drugs change the morphology of your brain’s opioid receptors and interfere with your ability to produce natural opioids,” Dr. Wilkinson says.
- Teen users are at greater risk than adults of developing a dependency. And that’s not the only danger.
📸: Keith Bridges / EyeEm
Source: teenvogue.com
