prescription drugs.
Prescription medicines are the second most abused substance among American adults, right behind marijuana.
Although the most commonly abused narcotics are alcohol and marijuana, other substances are also abused. The overuse of cocaine, inhalants, methamphetamine, heroin, hallucinogens, depressants, and painkillers is also common.
118,524,000 Americans claim to have used marijuana at some point in their life, making it the most popular illicit drug in the country (SAMHSA, RTI International ID 61118, 2017) Cocaine is the second most commonly used drug in America, with 38,880,000 people confessing to taking it at some point in their life.
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