STATISTICS & TRENDS

STATISTICS & TRENDS

New York Times Reporter Experiences Colorado Marijuana Edibles

The New York Times has just run a report from one of their writers who traveled to Colorado to report on the new marijuana industry, where she nibbled off the end of a candy bar infused with cannabis, an experiment that didn’t go so well.

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Another Hash Oil Explosion in Pyuallup, Washington

The video is jerky, it’s just a neighbor holding a video camera as he runs through the woods. Through the trees, you can see flames and hear one explosion after another—dozens of them.

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Study Indicates Parents Think New Marijuana Laws Harm Teens

A survey by the Harris Poll found that fully 80% of the parents surveyed were of the opinion that marijuana legalization increases the likelihood that teenaged children will try marijuana, taking their first steps into the world of drug use.

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Raising Awareness on Alcohol Addiction

April is Alcohol Awareness Month, an event sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD). Recently, the NCADD announced that the theme for this year’s event is “Help for Today.

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What Are the Economic Costs of Drug Abuse?

How much do drugs really cost the United States? We all know that drugs are taking a major toll on society, but what is the real impact that they have on our country?

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The Dangerous Drinking Game: Neknominate

Have you heard of neknominate? Have you been neknominated yet? You may have no idea what that word means, but there is a good chance that your kids do.

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Recent Trends Indicate Continual Rise In Designer Abuse

The last five years have brought a strange twist to the drug epidemic that is sweeping the world. Designer drugs such as bath salts and synthetic marijuana continue to rise in popularity, despite the fact that most were recently outlawed.

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Some Parents Enable Drug Abuse Instead of Oppose it

That is a very sad statement. But more and more, I find evidence that it is true. One might just hope that our high numbers of drug-abusing teens are just due to parents not knowing exactly how to approach the subject with their kids.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman: A Life Taken Too Soon Because of Addiction

On Saturday the 1st of February, America went to bed looking forward to Super Bowl Sunday the next day, but on the 2nd the nation awoke to the tragic news that one of its favorite actors had been found dead in his Greenwich Village apartment.

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Exporting Pot from Colorado: An Online Analysis

Will Colorado someday end up like Northern California? Could the Centennial State’s economy come to be dominated by the cultivation and sale of cannabis? By some reports, the entire economy of Humboldt County on the coast of rural Northern California...

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Heroin Use Doubles in Suburban America

Heroin used to be a drug that was mostly associated with the inner city or with groups on the fringes of society. Now, heroin is increasingly becoming a drug that can be found in the residential communities that so many of the families in this country...

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Drug Use Trends and What to Watch For In 2014

In many ways, 2014 is shaping up to be a year that will to a large degree be shaped by drugs. The past many decades have seen major societal changes which had their source in drug use trends or which were largely influenced by drugs.

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New Survey Released on Drug Use Trends

Every year, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a division of the National Institutes of Health, publishes its Monitoring the Future survey. The survey presents a valuable insight into the current trends and rates of drug abuse in the United States.

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Adolescent Drug Use in the United States

Children begin to be at great risk of starting to use drugs around the age of 13 or 14. This risk gradually escalates until the age of 16, which is described as being the “pivotal year” for teenagers who are more likely to be faced with peer pressure...

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Internet Drug Purchases Reaching Whole New Level

On October 2, 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized and shut down the website known as the Silk Road, and arrested a 29-year-old man suspected of being the owner and operator of the site.

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New Afghan Rehab Centers Emerging for Entire Populations

Most Americans know of Afghanistan primarily as being the country that our military invaded in November of 2001 in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

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How Should Drug Addiction Be Treated?

The United States drug czar, R. Gil Kerlikowske, who is the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy recently delivered a speech in Little Rock, Arkansas. He spoke before an assembly of around 700 people who were gathered to discuss...

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Illicit Drug Use Rising Around the World

In their annual anti-drug agency report released last week, the UN published its findings which predict a global increase in illegal drug use of 25% in the next four decades.

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The Loss of Cory Monteith

(Photo by s_bukley/Shutterstock.com) It happens all too often, and now it has happened again. Only a short time will go by before the news headlines are again covered with reports that another Hollywood star has died from drug overdose.

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Effective Strategies to Stop Teen Drug Abuse

According to the results of the 2012 Monitoring the Future survey, published by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 36.4 percent of American high school seniors admitted to having used marijuana within the past year. Included in this figure is...