1 in 4 people
On average, 1 in 4 people who receive prescription opioids long term for pain struggles with addiction.
In 2014,
11%
of all drug-related arrests for ages 0-29 in Carter and Pontotoc counties were due to opioids.
American Indians in the Chickasaw Nation reported a statistically significant higher rate of prescription narcotic misuse in the past
30 days
in comparison to non-natives living in Chickasaw Nation.
38%
of youth in the Chickasaw Nation who used prescription drugs to get high did so at either their own home or at a party.
Prescription painkillers were involved in 9 out of 10 prescription drug-related deaths, with
460
opioid-involved deaths in 2012 alone.
54%
of youth in the Chickasaw Nation who used prescription drugs to get high got them from friends.
87%
of students surveyed have never used prescription drugs to get high.
higher rate
Carter & Pontotoc counties have a higher rate of drug poisoning deaths than the state of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma
has the highest non-medical use of pain relievers for all age groups in the nation.
The impactful statistics were obtained from the Oklahoma Prevention Needs Assessment (OPNA), Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
The students surveyed using the Oklahoma Needs Prevention Assessment are from Region 10, which encompasses most of the Chickasaw Nation.
Three counties in the Chickasaw Nation are among the
top five
counties in the state for unintentional poisoning deaths.
