Sentences with phrase «misuse prescription pain medications»

Subsequent research on the link between childhood adversity and addiction corroborates the findings from the ACE Study, including studies that have found that people who've experienced childhood trauma have more chronic pain and use more prescription drugs; people who experienced five or more traumatic events are three times more likely to misuse prescription pain medications.

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All too often when prescription medication sits in people's medicine cabinets it can be misused by children or for a lesser pain than was prescribed.

Use and misuse of opioids — morphine and related drugs, including prescription pain medications — has risen rapidly in recent years, leading the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to declare a nationwide «opioid epidemic.»

In those using prescription drugs without a prescription or using more than prescribed, 81 percent identified self - medication of pain as the reason for misuse.