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PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE: THE NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Michael Botticelli, Acting Director Office of National Drug Control Policy
April 22, 2013 National Rx Drug Abuse Summit
Atlanta, Georgia
JOSEPH BARTOLUCCI March 5, 1984 - February 28, 2009
West Palm Beach, Florida
TOD PARKINSON October 19, 1981 - March 13, 2012
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
SAVANNAH KISSICK, d. 2008 || SARAH SHAY, d. 2006 Morehead, Kentucky || Clearfield, Kentucky
RONNIE POWELL 1989 - 2008
Harleysville, Pennsylvania
Faces of Opioid Overdose
STEPHANIE PARKINSON November 7, 1982 – November 22, 2008
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
State Overdose Death Rates, 2010
10.9
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Underlying Cause of Death 2000-2010 on CDC WONDER Online Database. Extracted October, 2012.
— U.S. National Rate: 12.3 per 100,000 —
• Coordinated effort across the Federal government
• Four focus areas
1) Education 2) Prescription Drug
Monitoring Programs 3) Proper Medication
Disposal 4) Enforcement
Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Plan
• There are signs that efforts to reduce and prevent prescription drug abuse are working.
• The number of Americans 12 and older initiating the nonmedical use of prescription opioids in the past year has decreased significantly since 2009, from 2.2 million in that year to 1.9 million in 2012. 1
• The rate of past year use among high school seniors of OxyContin or Vicodin in 2013 is its lowest since 2002.2
• Long term success will come from coordination and collaboration at the Federal, state, local, and tribal levels.
Progress
1. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administra7on. Results from the 2012 Na7onal Survey on Drug Use and Health: Detailed Tables. Department of Health and Human Services. [September 2013]. Available: hHp://www.samhsa.gov/data/NSDUH/2012SummNatFindDetTables/DetTabs/NSDUH-‐DetTabsSect7peTabs1to45-‐2012.htm#Tab7.36A 2. The Monitoring the Future study. Narco&cs other than Heroin: Trends in Annual Use and Availability – Grades 8, 10, and 12. University of Michigan. [December 2013]. Available: hHp://www.monitoringthefuture.org/data/13data/13drfig8.pdf
DR.. STEVEN LOYD Physician in Recovery
Johnson City, Tennessee
Faces of Hope and Recovery
JOANNE PETERSON Mother and Advocate,
Learn2Cope Raynham, Massachusetts
ALLISON BOUCHARD
Caribou,, Maine
CHELSEA Danville, California