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Here's The Favored Recreational Drug Of Your Grandparents' Generation
Updated by German Lopez on February 26, 2015, 2:20 p.m. ET
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Millennials are reportedly using less marijuana, cocaine, and hallucinogens than baby boomers, but the younger generation appears to abuse painkillers at a higher rate.

DrugAbuse.com compiled decades of federal survey data on drug use in 10 charts, showing which drugs each generation preferred for recreational purposes:



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Painkiller abuse is a continuing public health problem in the US. The number of deaths due to prescription painkiller overdoses rose from about 4,000 in 1999 to more than 16,200 in 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These deaths have been spread across all age groups, but DrugAbuse.com'slysis suggests that millennials could be at a greater risk than other generations.

The charts also show higher heroin use among millennials. Heroin has also become a bigger public health problem in the past few years: heroin overdose deaths increased from about 4,400 in 2011 to more than 8,200 in 2013, according to the CDC.

The rise of heroin overdose deaths could be related to law enforcement cracking down on prescription painkiller abuse and pushing painkiller users to heroin, which, like painkillers, is an opioid. A 2014 study published in JAMA Psychiatry found that addicted painkiller users resort to the more dangerous heroin if their painkiller supply is cut off.





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