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Drug Use Drops for America's Youth, Rises in the Over 50 Crowd
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.
http://news.yahoo.com/drug-drops…
ha
- utopian0
- haha that fucking tongueCygnusZero4
- someone has cottonmouthCygnusZero4
- georgesIII0
PILLHEADS EVERYWHERE,
IT'S AN EPIDEMIC
LET'S START THE WAR ON BIG PHARMA
- capn_ron0
us all do drugs?
- moldero0
what the hell? is Scarabin taking a break or something?
- xpxhxoxexnxixx0
how are they even measuring drug use in this country? door to door census of drug use? cmon. these articles are complete bs. designed to make us think that our youth is somehow waking up and saying 'yeah we want to make something of ourselves' and for us to believe the 'war' on drugs is being won. this article is about as effective as saying Tepco can measure exact radiation levels
- omg0
- ukit20
A two point difference in polls that were taken 10 years apart could just be random statistical noise. The margin of error in most polls is 3-4 points.
Also who tells the government they use drugs? LOL
- stoplying0
I always doubt the accuracy of these polls. Who is going to really be up front about their drug use?
- orrinward20
I would have though the main cause of the drop in "illicit drug use" is down to making cannabis not an "illicit drug" in a bunch of places.