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U.S. Adult Binge Drinkers Consume About 17.5 Billion Total Binge Drinks Annually
Data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. In 2015, a total of 17.1% of U.S. adults (37.4 million) reported an annual average of 53.1 binge-drinking episodes per binge drinker, at an average intensity of 7.0 drinks per binge episode, resulting in 17.5 billion total binge drinks, or 467.0 binge drinks per binge drinker. …
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Heavy Drinking Still Kills More People Than Opioid Overdoses
Between 2006 and 2010, an average of 106,765 Americans died each year from alcohol-related causes such as liver disease, alcohol poisoning and drunk driving—more than twice the number of overdoses from all drugs and more than triple the number of opioid overdoses in 2015. A study in JAMA Psychiatry that compared American drinking habits in 2001-02 with …
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Alcohol Abuse Is Rising Among Older Adults
Epidemiologists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism last month reported a jarring trend: Problem drinking is rising fast among older Americans. Data from a national survey taken in 2001 and 2002 and again in 2012 and 2013 found that over the two periods there was a 22 percent increase in the drinking …
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Pregnant Teens’ Marijuana Use Twice As High As Non-pregnant Peers
Nora D. Volkow, MD, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and her associates reported in a letter on April 17, 2017 in the Annals of Internal Medicine that past-month prevalence of marijuana use among pregnant teens aged 12-17 years was 14% compared with 6.5% for their non-pregnant peers. This study involved 410,000 females …
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Opioid Prescribing Falls But Still Remains High
According to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), opioid prescribing decreased in parts of the country between 2010 and 2015, but remains high compared with 1999 data. Opioid prescribing peaked at 782 morphine milligram equivalents (MME) per capita in 2010. In 2015, this number decreased to 640 MME per capita. …
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Designer Drugs
Street and Club Drugs A designer drug is a structural or functional analog of a controlled substance that has been designed to mimic the pharmacological effects of the original drug but avoids being classified as illegal, avoids detection in standard drug test, and are available online for a lower cost than illegal substances. The use of these drugs can result in chronic psychiatric …
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