The 2017 National Institute on Drug Abuse’s Monitoring the Future study had some scary statistics for parents:
- One-third of all respondents (8th, 10th and 12th graders) admitted to using drugs in the last 12 months.
- Nearly two out of 10, or 17% of eighth graders, admitted to having tried an illicit substance at some point (not necessarily in the past year).
- By 10th grade, almost half, or 49%, had tried an illicit drug at least once.
Even scarier is the fact that trying an illicit substance just one time can be deadly.
Why is that? The synthetic opioid Fentanyl has made its way into other street drugs, including counterfeit pills stamped with legitimate-looking names like Percocet. It only takes a very small amount of Fentanyl to kill someone
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