Posted on 10/03/2014 8:13:30 PM PDT by DBCJR
New SAMHSA report shows that 24.6 million Americans aged 12 or older were current (past month) illicit drug users – 9.4 percent of this age group. Marijuana was by far the most commonly used illicit drug with approximately 19.8 million current users aged 12 and older. In terms of other illicit drugs, the report indicates that among those aged 12 and older, there were 4.5 million current nonmedical users of prescription pain relievers (1.7 percent), 1.5 million current cocaine users (0.6 percent), 595,000 methamphetamine users (0.2 percent), and 289,000 current heroin users (0.1 percent). Although an estimated 22.7 million persons aged 12 or older needed treatment for an illicit drug or alcohol use problem, only 2.5 million persons received treatment at a specialty facility.
The SAMHSA report also shows that 34.6 million adults aged 18 or older (14.6 percent of the population aged 18 or older) received mental health treatment or counseling during the past 12 months. Nearly one in five American adults (18.5 percent), or 43.8 million adults, had a mental illness in 2013. Ten million adults (4.2 percent of the adult population) had a serious mental illness in the past year.
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Between prescribed psychotropic drugs and the eventual legalization of all illegal drugs ... we will soon be a completely stoned nation, willing to accept anything.
The tiny (non-pot) minority hardly justifies the “war on drugs.” Especially the other problems we have!
Marijuana; 19.8 million users
Non-med pescription drugs; 4.5 million users
Cocaine; 1.5 million users
Methamphetamines; 595,000 users
Heroin; 289,000 users
Wouldn’t have guessed these numbers. Would have thought more meth and heroin.
Well, now the last two Presidential elections make more sense.
So start drinking heavily.
Well, there is that. ;-)
There's nothing wrong with illicit drugs.
They are only illicit cuz those in charge don't want us to have any FUN.
Since American voters re-elected Obama...we have already crossed that bridge.
Amen ...
Isn’t that how the Chinese became communist. Opium dens? (using my very long term memory here)
Every lib psych text book I have read warns against marijuana...
“Zalesky’s study is hardly unassailable proof, but the suggestion is powerful. Especially considering a study in New Zealand that followed over a thousand individuals from birth to age 38, showing that people who started smoking marijuana in their teens had lower IQs in their thirties compared to their childhood.”
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/you-illuminated/201409/long-term-effects-marijuana-the-brain
Having read Mao’s little read book (know your enemy), I doubt it. Moa was strongly against drugs. If anything, he inherited a country overwhelmed with drugs and did his best to purge his country of such. In my mind, this was the only thing he did that merited any praise.
We are! The report also said there were 60M people who reported an episode of binge drinking, including 1.5M adolescents.
I started the bottle when I foolishly agreed to play Obama drinking games. I have to take a sip everytime he says “folks” and “there are those.” I just hooked up an IV for the convenience.
But this news doesn’t surprise me. There is a new assault everyday from this man and his administration. Jobs are not coming back. Citizens are now ignored and impugned. Everywhere on everything is this man and his hideous wife’s face. Of course people want an escape. And the feds love it. A sober population is hard to control.
How can such a supposedly small percentage of our population pay the huge amounts of money that run the drug cartels?
SOON? We're already there. Add to those hooked on legal and illegal drugs the effect on everyone else of technology. Then there's the manipulation of information we receive. Political correctness and not wanting to offend anyone have destroyed freedom of speech. Then there's the "everyone's a criminal" life of a camera on every street corner and drones in the sky. The destruction of the middle class leaves less people free to make changes for a better life.
I think there are some people who still care, but the numbers are thinning out quickly.
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