bullsh!t. i've seen it take Doctors/lawyers/engineers/you name it for everything they had... degreed individuals all.
Posted on 08/30/2007 4:33:42 PM PDT by blam
Source: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Date: August 30, 2007
Cocaine Use Related To Level Of Education Achieved
Science Daily — The decreased use of cocaine in the United States over the last 20 years mostly occurred among the highly educated, while cocaine use among non-high school graduates remained constant, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The study authors suspect that the inverse relationship between cocaine use and education is related to access to health warnings and resources. They also concluded that the emerging disparity highlights the need for improved interventions that target persistent cocaine users who are lower educated.
“Much like smoking, people with a better understanding of the impact cocaine has on health are more likely to modify their behavior,” said Valerie S. Harder, MHS, lead author of the study and a PhD-candidate in the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Mental Health. “Better educated individuals also may have more resources and access to health care services, such as drug treatment programs.”
The researchers used data from the 1979-2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health to compare cocaine use and educational achievement for adults aged 19-50 years. Adults were categorized as non-high school graduate, high school graduate or college graduate and as either recent-onset or persistent cocaine users.
The proportion of non-high school graduates using cocaine has remained consistent from 1979-2002. Early data suggests that high school and college graduates were more likely to start and persist in their use of cocaine, as compared to non-high school graduates.
During the late 1980s, the proportion of high school and college graduates classified as persistent users dropped dramatically and fell below that of non-high school graduates. During the same time period, first time cocaine use steadily decreased among all adults regardless of their level of educational achievement and remained low.
“It isn’t enough to simply try to stop individuals from using cocaine the first time,” said Harder. “More drug intervention programs that target non-high school graduates are necessary to reduce persistent cocaine use in that population.”
The study is published in the October 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
This was my personal experience at least.
These things made a big difference in motivating me to quit.
I atop reading an article when I encounter words like 'disparity'.
bullsh!t. i've seen it take Doctors/lawyers/engineers/you name it for everything they had... degreed individuals all.
I've seen it too. They got clean and bounced back though.
of the ones i know, most did, some died, some never will.
If you got bad news, you wanna kick them blues; cocaine.
When your day is done and you wanna run; cocaine.
She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie; cocaine.
If your thing is gone and you wanna ride on; cocaine.
Don't forget this fact, you can't get it back; cocaine.
She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie; cocaine.
She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie; cocaine.
Kids who use drugs are more likely to drop out of public schools , but then many kids who would never be exposed to drugs at home are exposed to them via the public school system.
The devil is in the details.
Good for you, George.
“Cocaine is God’s way of telling you that you’ve got too damn much money.” - Robin Williams
Ah, that explains the phrase "lower educated" being used to replace "poorly parented".
‘Cocaine is God’s way of saying You make to much money....’
Robin Williams
Yet another set of pundits who are pushing an agenda.
Can you say "more taxes to increase school funding? I knew you could!" After all, it's for the children, right?
And what if, just what if, the likelyhood that someone doesn't finish high school and their propensity to use drugs are not linked to each other at all, but attributable to some other factor or set of factors?
Did they look at two parent (intact) families? Involvement in sports? Level of parental involvement? (dare I say it...) Church involvement? Why, of course not! These things are counterproductive to increased control of people and money.
An educated and discerning population will seek to be responsible, self governing and free. An uneducated, ignorant, drugged and amoral population will produce a nanny government. How? Pandering power hungry politicians will tax and legislate against the first group in order to buy votes by satisfying the depravity of the second group. /rant
Yet criminalization of drugs is textbook nanny-statism and anathema to self-governance and freedom.
And I always thought cocaine was God’s little way of telling you that you are greatly overcompensated for the little contribution you make to society.
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