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Do you think you know what addiction looks like?

You may be surprised. It could be your neighbor, your aunt, your son’s best friend. Addiction
doesn’t pay attention to age, skin color or income, and the numbers are growing.

1 in every 10 high school 1 in 4
families
12th grade
students will be affected by
someone’s drinking
has admitted to incorrectly or drug use
using prescription painkillers

At least Drug overdose deaths in 2016
1 in 10
exceeded 59,000
people will experience a ,
problem with alcohol
or drugs in their lifetime the largest annual jump ever
recorded in the United States,
according to preliminary data
from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention

Women It has hit close to home:
In 2016, Summit County had
may more rapidly develop
a prescription painkiller 312 drug deaths,
addiction than men a 46% increase

from 2015 and more than triple the 99 cases that
went through the medical examiner’s office just
two years before

Heroin abuse and addiction have risen in According to the National Survey
on Drug Use and Health,
all population and
demographic groups Hispanics
and whites
in the United States over the past few years
suffered from substance abuse and dependence
Although the face and frequency of addiction at similar rates in 2013, around 8.5%, while about
may be changing, what hasn’t changed is 7.4 % of African-Americans struggled with it
Summa Health’s ability to help.

Our long history of treating addiction as a To learn more, contact our Addiction
disease can help you or someone you love Medicine Intensive Outpatient Program at:
experience relief from symptoms and gather
new hope and possibilities in life. Akron: 330.379.9836 I Canton: 330.491.9215
Hudson: 330.319.9768
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