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PUBH 201 Discussion QuestionsWhat percent of heroin users in the 2000s started on prescription drugs? - correct answer ✔✔75%
Most first time opioid abusers obtain them from a friend or relative. - correct answer ✔✔True
Where do most first-time abusers of painkillers usually obtain them from? - correct answer ✔✔Friends
or Relatives
Oxycodone is more addictive than cocaine and marijuana - correct answer ✔✔True or False?
How many people die from a drug overdose each year? - correct answer ✔✔more than 46,000 people
In the recent decade, what is the drug that people recognize as the "reason" or "starting point" for their
addiction? - correct answer ✔✔prescription opioids
More than _________ people (12 years and older) in the U.S. reported nonmedical use of prescription
opiates in 2014. - correct answer ✔✔10 Million
Nearly all the people using heroine are also using at least one other drug. - correct answer ✔✔True
Almost all people who use heroin also use one or more other drugs. - correct answer ✔✔True
Someone cannot become addicted from the first dose of opioids. - correct answer ✔✔False
46,000 people die from a drug overdose? - correct answer ✔✔True. It is more than automobile accidents
and gun violence.
, According to the participants in this video, what do they consider to be the most addictive drug? -
correct answer ✔✔Oxycontin
3 out of 5 high school seniors have reported misusing prescription drugs at least once in their lifetime. -
correct answer ✔✔False
In the U.S.44 people die every day from an opioid overdose? - correct answer ✔✔True or False??
The number of people who die from a drug overdose each year is approximately _____________. -
correct answer ✔✔46,000
Out of the 46,000+ drug related deaths in the United States every year, what percentage are related to
opiate abuse? - correct answer ✔✔50%
more than 10 million people 12 years old and older in the US reported nonmedical use of prescription
opiates in 2014. - correct answer ✔✔True
According to Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict, how many people a day die from
overdosing? - correct answer ✔✔44
You can maintain an opioid addiction and a normal life at the same time - correct answer ✔✔False
where do the majority of first-time painkiller abusers obtain their pills? - correct answer ✔✔friends or
relatives
The film cites this drug as the most addictive among youth - correct answer ✔✔Oxycodon
More than 10 million people 12 years and older in the US reported nonmedical use of the prescription
opiates in 2014. - correct answer ✔✔True
What were some of the health consequences involved with opiate usage? - correct answer ✔✔A. Blood-
borne pathogens
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