Prescription drug abuse surging among youths

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A surge in prescription drug abuse cases is fueling fears that more D.C. metro-area teenagers are breaking into parents’ medicine cabinets and trying friends’ pills to get what’s perceived as a less-dangerous high.

Local public health and safety officials say they’re seeing more young people abusing prescription drugs. And some of those cases have been tragic.

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