STATISTICS & TRENDS

STATISTICS & TRENDS

Drug Abuse Now a Top Cause of Discipline among Nurses and Doctors

Drug abuse is so prevalent in our society today that just about every industry and walk of life is affected by it. Drug addiction sneaks into our lives in the most terrible of ways. It seems like no industry or area or part of life is safe anymore. So...

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How Rural America Became the Next Victim of the Opioid Epidemic

Addiction is not a new struggle. We’ve dealt with this problem as far back as the history books go, and probably further than that. Addiction is a difficult factor of human nature. It’s something that’s gnawed at us, silently, from the darkest corners...

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How Could Doctors Play Their Role in Reducing the Opioid Epidemic?

Doctors played a decisive role in fueling the opioid epidemic whether they knew it or not.

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Drug Overdoses Compared to Other Countries

I went a few years without listening to the radio. Premium memberships to online streaming stations, why bother? But a few days ago I was driving across the state, coincidentally through an internet dead zone.

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Thousands of Kids Have Fallen Prey to Fatal Poisonings on Opioids

In December of 2018, Yale University released a research paper that outlined the effects of the opioid epidemic on our nation’s children. When we look at the opioid problem, we almost always look at the adults who are addicted to these drugs, who lose...

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More Than Just Opioid Overdoses: Psychostimulant Abuse and Overdose Now on the Rise

Today, overdose statistics are at all-time highs, and not just with opioids either. Addicts are overdosing on psychostimulants too, drugs like meth, cocaine, amphetamine, crack, etc.

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Drug Abuse on College Campuses: What College Students are Doing on the Drug Scene

When we think of college campuses, the upper echelon of educational attainment in the United States, a bunch of students smoking marijuana is not the first concept that comes to mind. However, on hundreds of colleges across the country, cigarette smoking...

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When Drug Use Becomes So Common that Workers Overdose on the Job

When the number of drug users in the United States climbs to absolutely unprecedented levels, it is a logical assumption of course that drug use will begin to appear in the workforce.

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The “War on Drugs” Didn’t Work in Other Countries Either

Here is a phrase that gets tossed around quite often, “The war on drugs.” This phrase actually came from the Reagan Administration, when First Lady Nancy Reagan pioneered the War on Drugs in 1983.

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Drug Use in Middle-Class America

In just about every unpleasant factor or daily occurrence in life, we have the stereotypical concept of what we think of when we think of that thing, and then there is the factor of what actually occurs. Sometimes they are not the same thing.

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The Addiction Epidemic, U.S. Politics and Our Way Out

When we examine a problem as big as drug and alcohol addiction across the U.S., we need to come at this from every angle possible. Drug and alcohol addiction in the U.S.

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As “Drug Culture” Returns, Teens Are Exposed to More Risk

Everyone faces risk and threats to their health when they experiment with drugs and alcohol . The nature of the beast with substance abuse is that it is a highly unhealthy activity, hence why it is so frowned upon in society.

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The Opioid Epidemic in Numbers

The United States is struggling with a health epidemic, a crippling crisis that affects more than forty percent of the U.S. population. It started as a problem. By 2006 it was a crisis. In 2012 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention labeled it...

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Teenage Boys and Over the Counter Drug Abuse – A Habit More Prevalent Than Ever

According to new research, young men and adolescent boys are more likely to use over-the-counter drugs than young women and adolescent girls are.

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Teens and Prescription Drug Abuse

An area of drug abuse that needs to be talked about more is teen prescription drug abuse. Research shows that teens and young people, in general, are abusing prescription drugs with growing prevalence, and that is something to be worried about.

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U.S. Life Expectancy Is on Its Way Down. Why?

Changes in the U.S. every year aren’t uncommon, that’s just a natural part of the constantly changing aspect of life. Unfortunately, not all changes are good ones. One change the U.S. has experienced recently has been that of a significant, ongoing...

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Doctor Shopping on the Rise: How Addicts Really Get Drugs

The drug addiction “scene” in the United States has changed much since the turn of the century. While drug crime of the twentieth century always involved back-alley dealings, gangs, trafficking cartels, and an all-out war against all of the above,...

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Prescription Drug Take-Back Programs

It’s easy to get swept up talking about the horrendous morass of difficulty and unpleasantries that come with our country’s drug addiction epidemic. There is certainly enough bad news to go around. But as the media tends to only focus on the bad news...

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Methamphetamine Abuse Is Causing More Visits to Emergency Rooms

It is no mystery that meth abuse is on the rise, especially amongst young adult populations and demographics. Young people show increasing interest in this drug, and that is something to be concerned about.

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Overprescribing Trends for Opioid Painkillers—We Need Prescribing Reform Now

Perhaps the most prevalent factor of 21st-century drug addiction in the United States is that the majority of addicts are not hooked on illegal drugs. They are hooked on legal, supposedly safe, supposedly helpful, pharmaceutical drugs.