Prescription Drug Abuse Among Ontario Teens Has Doubled Since 2019

Published on June 11, 2024

Recreational prescription drug use among Ontario’s youth has nearly doubled in the past five years, according a new report. Nearly 22 percent of students in grades 7–12 reported using prescription painkillers last year for non-medical purposes, up from 11 percent in 2019 and 12.7 percent in 2021, a newly released report from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) found. The increase accounts for a 71 percent surge in prescription drug use between 2021 and 2023. The drugs of choice were Percocet, Percodan, Tylenol #3, Demerol, Dilaudid, OxyNeo, and Codeine, according to the report, which uses data gathered through a survey distributed by the CAMH to more than 200 schools in the province every other year....

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