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Major Drugs of Abuse

Drug abuse trends have fluctuated in the country for many decades. Some drugs become more popular at times than others but the main street drugs have remained in use. These include cocaine and crack, heroin, ecstasy, LSD, marijuana and methamphetamine.

Prescription drug addiction is much more common in today's culture, which is very unfortunate because it is a created condition. The wide variety of painkillers, tranquilizers, sedatives and stimulants that have flooded the market and the promotion from pharmaceutical companies, liberal presribing practices from doctors and availability on the web have created a major scene in which more young people are trying these drugs for the first time than they are marijuana in many cases.

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Common Drugs of Abuse

Alcohol is the most abused substance in America. It's social acceptability and availability make it seem less dangerous, but alcohol claims more lives than all of the others combined. Someone doesn't have to be an all-day drinker to have an alcohol abuse probelm that needs to be helped. Sometimes it may be only a moderate amount every day or periods of heavy drinking spread out. It could be wine, beer or liquor.

Prescription drugs that are abused include narcotic painkillers such as hydrocodone and oxycodone. Brand name examples are Vicodin, Lortab, OxyContin and Percocet.Another growing catogory of prescription drug abuse includes benzodiazepines (benzos) such as Xanax, Valium, Klonopin and Ativan. These are sedatives that have a very high potential for abuse that are unfortunately often carelessly prescribed to executives by doctors.

Sometimes the pressure to perform at work or school and function with very little sleep will lead a young person or adult to some type of stimulant. This could include a prescription stimulant like Ritalin, Dexedrine and Adderall. All three are very powerfully addictive stimulants that have a high abuse potential and toxic level.

There may be a wide variety of drugs that are abused in this day in age. With the massive onslaught of prescription drugs continually hitting the market and the false credo of taking a pill for every ill, there are many substances that can get someone caught in the trap of addiction.

Heroin and other opiates continue to be a major problem in the U.S., especially with many former prescription painkiller abusers switching to something stronger like heroin, morphine, fentanyl, methadone, etc.

Major stimulants that are abused include cocaine and crack, amphetamines and methamphetamines. Cocaine use has remained high in the country but the surge of meth abuse in the late 90's and earlier this decade as gone back down a bit.