Drug abuse statistics: American drug abuse and addiction

Monday, July 13th, 2009

In looking up some numbers for a recent post I put up on TakePart, I uncovered some amazing addiction and drug abuse statistics (most from 2007, so they're probably higher by now). Addiction statistics highlights: Slightly more than half of Americans surveyed indicated that they are current drinkers (I thought it'd be ...

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More drug addiction research from CPDD: Teenage smoking, childhood trauma, and marijuana withdrawal

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Today, I'll give a short summary of a few interesting talks I saw at the conference: Teenage smoking - Children of mothers who used drugs during pregnancy had abnormal stress hormone levels. When assessed over time, their abnormal stress response was associated with an earlier onset (age of first use) of ...

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