Give um a break, their government has turned on them like an Ebola infected Pitbull.
The article further states that 60 million people had a binge drinking episode, including 1.6 million adolescents.
I’m just waiting for some agency (DEA, USDA, EPA, it don’t matter) to declare water to be an illegal drug.
No real shocks here. Wouldn’t matter if you looked around Iowa, or downtown area of Atlanta....you’d still find the same stat’s.
I’d also press the number higher if you included legal drugs that were being acquired and used in wrongful doses (Oxycodone for example).
Wow binge drinkers outnumber potheads 3 to 1... that surprises me a little. Add in just the binge drinkers numbers and it jumps from 1 in 12 up to 3 in 12 then.
So I am assuming from the article, illegal users are the targets as the only Americans “doped up” huh?
They included 1 legal drug, alcohol, in the article, but not the big one... Nicotine, guess that is harder to figure now with ecigs and all. Also they give numbers for non medical use of prescription drugs and separate number for pain killers, but no number of legal users of these for comparison??
proud to state i’ve never used an illegal drug, ever.
what i do wish is that they’d make hempseed oil legal because apparently it has some cancer-related health benefits, and it’s not something you smoke. the type of hemp oil you can buy legally doesn’t have the compounds that work against cancer, but it’s a good oil for overall health.
Drugs are used by so many and in such quantities that we need to seek a new palliative to combat this societal illness.
First we MUST put a halt to the misguided WAR-ON-SOME-DRUGS!
New drugs should be engineered so that those who are hopelessly inclined to intoxication can take something that is much safer than what is now available.
Let pharmaceutical companies do research and create and sell safer drugs to adults, and limit their liability if sued. People who want to take drugs should absolve those trying to make it as safe as humanly possible for them to do so.
It will NEVER happen! Because common sense is in such short supply these days.
Stupid headline. Illegal and illicit are not the same thing.
Most of the child abuse and neglect cases include elements of drug abuse, alcohol abuse and mental illness.