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Drug use up amongst over 50 year olds.
#18802690 - 09/05/13 10:12 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Drug use among America's youth is dropping, but it's booming among people over 50, a U.S. government survey released Wednesday shows.
Last year, the rate of illicit drug use among children and teenagers 12 to 17 years old dropped to 9.5 percent, down from 11.6 percent a decade earlier, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) latest national survey.
Meanwhile, illicit drug use among adults 50 to 64 years old has increased in the past decade.
Specifically, illicit drug use among adults 50 to 54 has more than doubled since 2002, reaching 7.2 percent last year. For people 55 to 59, such drug use has more than tripled, reaching 6.6 percent last year.
Marijuana is by far the most-used illicit drug among both children and adults, according to SAMHSA, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services.
At a press conference Wednesday in Washington, officials expressed particular concern about use by those 12 to 17 years old.
"There's no question that marijuana is harmful to the developing brains of adolescents," said SAMHSA administrator Pamela Hyde, adding that marijuana use has been linked to "significant I.Q. declines."
As for young adults – those 18 to 25 years old – rates of illicit drug use have remained somewhat steady over recent years, with a slight increase in marijuana use, according to the survey.
Illicit drug use among children had remained steady at 10.1 percent from 2009 to 2011, which was a slight increase from years before. Overall, though, use for that age group has dropped in the past decade.
The data was released at the start of September to help kick off National Recovery Month, a government-sponsored promotion of preventing and treating substance abuse and mental health disorders.
"Recovery Month reminds us that the work we do to promote and support recovery has lasting, positive impact on so many individuals, families and communities," said H. Westley Clark, the director of SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. "It also reminds us that while we have made great strides, there is still much for us to do."
The press conference on Wednesday featured young men and women who shared their personal stories of addiction, mental health disorders and now continuing recovery.
They came from all different backgrounds.
Twenty-eight-year-old Daniel LaPointe grew up in suburban New Jersey with a "loving family" that stressed "educational excellence," he said.
In 1997, at age 12, he won a contest for writing an essay titled "Why I Won't Try Drugs." A month later, suffering from insecurities and depression, he started smoking marijuana, which ultimately led him to heroin and, as he put it, "the funerals of five good friends."
Juan Velez Court grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico, suffering from multiple mental health disorders. He tried to commit suicide several times and started to mutilate himself.
"I was so tired of not knowing what to do, the only way was punishing myself until the physical pain overcame the emotional pain," he said, adding that whole-body "wellness" has helped him continue with recovery.
Jenna Bertino, also of New Jersey, was almost brought to tears while telling her story.
When she was 13, two days after Christmas, her father took his own life. Refusing to "face that reality," she started drinking beer and smoking marijuana, and she eventually moved on to pills, she recalled.
"Before I knew it, I had a $200-a-day Percocet habit, and I was robbing and lying and manipulating and doing whatever I needed to do to get one more," she said. "I had become a monster. My mom used to sleep with her purse under her pillow out of fear that I was going to come in and rob her."
Her drug use didn't stop there. Ultimately, she moved onto heroin, hanging out in neighborhoods she said she had "no business" visiting. Then she was arrested and thrown behind bars.
"From that jail cell I started to see hope. I had this moment of clarity, and in that moment I no longer wanted to die a using addict with a needle in my arm," she said. "I wanted to live."
Bertino entered a rehabilitation program, during which she learned about herself and how to cope with life's challenges, she said.
She finished the rehabilitation program in 2010. Since then, she graduated college, and now she is starting graduate school.
"It's amazing that I have a purpose," she said.
http://news.yahoo.com/drug-drops-americas-youth-rises-over-50-crowd-202408530--abc-news-topstories.html
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Edited by afrogus (09/05/13 04:20 PM)
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Re: Drug use up amongst over 50 year olds. [Re: afrogus]
#18802726 - 09/05/13 10:24 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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They talk about this girl like it was the marijuana that's so bad, but they say she was addicted to pills when she was stealing and ending up in the "wrong neighborhoods"
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Re: Drug use up amongst over 50 year olds. [Re: afrogus]
#18802731 - 09/05/13 10:25 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Edited by Johnny Depp (12/19/14 05:29 PM)
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Re: Drug use up amongst over 50 year olds. [Re: Johnny Depp]
#18803198 - 09/05/13 12:35 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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fuck yahoo...
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Re: Drug use up amongst over 50 year olds. [Re: zZZz]
#18803204 - 09/05/13 12:37 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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zZZz said: fuck yahoo...
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Re: Drug use up amongst over 50 year olds. [Re: Futuresight]
#18803351 - 09/05/13 01:22 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Copy and paste the news article in a new thread and include the link to the source.
As per the rules here.
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Re: Drug use up amongst over 50 year olds. [Re: Futuresight]
#18807533 - 09/06/13 01:48 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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$200 a day for cets???? Less than 10 years ago they were $2 a piece here. Seems like the tylenol woulda killed her if she was takin 100 a day... She probably told her story to the event leaders and they said, "Spice it up a little bit, honey."
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Re: Drug use up amongst over 50 year olds. [Re: huffinglue]
#18813888 - 09/08/13 02:33 AM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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yea, see. legalize marijane and the drug use rate has dropped. duh.. it makes sense if ya really think about it.
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