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DENVER — Prescription drugs are more dangerous than any other drug out there because they are given by a doctor, a person of trust so people think it is OK to abuse them.

With 70 percent of Americans, who abuse prescription drugs, they get them from friends, family and their own medicine cabinet.

Here in Colorado we have the second worst rate of pain pill abuse in the US. Arthur Schut, the CEO of Arapahoe house, is here with more.

https://www.arapahoehouse.org/