BE A
PART OF
NOT APART
FROM
"...that where there is despair, I may bring hope;"
The Sober Life Project does not provide treatment for addiction or any other illness, does not claim to provide medical or psychological intervention for any disorder, nor does it diagnose addiction. The Sober Life Project is a public awareness clearing house for drug abuse and addiction information, resources, referrals and peer support only.
A D D I C T I O N
DESTROYING LIVES, STEALING LOVED ONES,
THREATENING OUR FUTURE & WAY OF LIFE
PAINKILLER PRESCRIPTIONS PER 100 PEOPLE BY STATE
FACT: More people will begin abusing prescription medications today than will begin using vitamins and health supplements.
IF YOU OR YOUR LOVED one are ACTIVEly experiencing
negative consequences from substance use, PLEASE KNOW THIS FACT:
Just hoping that things will be better tommorrow
IS THE DISEASE TALKING IN YOUR HEAD
the same path leadS to THE SAME PLACE
Heroin abuse is tightly tied to prescription drug abuse. Almost half of people addicted to heroin are also addicted to painkillers. People are 40 times more likely to be addicted to heroin if they are addicted to prescription painkillers. Abuse of prescription painkillers is incredibly common — one in 20 Americans age 12 and older reported using painkillers for non-medical reasons in the past year. While it's true that heroin abuse has skyrocketed in the last years, prescription drug abuse is more common.
The number of overdose deaths from prescription pain medi-cation is larger than those of heroin and cocaine combined.
Heroin, a highly addictive substance is increasinly available at lower and lower street prices. The Fededral Drug Enforcement Administration reports a 26% increase in opiate abuse in the last year. Abusers are our children, siblings, classmates, co-workers and neighbors.
Opiate-related overdose deaths affecting male, non-hispanic whites from 18 to 25 years old increased 286 percent between 2002 and 2013.
There's a true EPIDEMIC sweeping across cities, towns and rural communities in these United States. It's a plague that affects more and more of our people everyday, especially young adults.
This epidemic is called addiction and it usually begins with "casual" substance abuse. The terms "social pressure" or "peer pressure" are sometimes used to describe and maybe even excuse, a consequential event brought on by substance abuse. Despite what we might think, these events can be early evidence of high probability that full-blown addiction lies ahead. In a wildly increasing number of todays cases, the substance is HEROIN and a number of other opium derivatives. Read more