Conservative estimates report that more than 6 million Americans are battling with an addiction to pain pills, and many of these people are co abusing alcohol and other drugs in combination with prescribed opiates.

The poly drug abuse of pain pills and alcohol has negative implications for increased dependency, increased bodily harm and risks of fatal overdose, decreased cognitive and psychological performances, exacerbated detox and withdrawal symptoms and complicated drug treatment and aftercare.

The addiction to any one drug is problematic, and when the addiction occurs to more than one concurrent substance the treatment needs to be correspondingly intensive.

The dangers of pain pill and alcohol addiction remain high within our society, and a recent survey of high school kids indicates that as many as 20% of high school seniors had abused both pain pills and alcohol to get high.