Drugs in American SocietyThis edition probes the drug phenomenon in all its social, cultural and legal complexity. It covers the full range of psychoactive drug use, from legal medical and prescription use to criminal, recreational use, from casual use to addiction. |
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Page 140
... population , they only make up 9 percent of drug - related deaths . In contrast , over - 35 - year - old users , who make up a tad below half of the total population ( 48 percent ) , and , as we saw , are strikingly less likely to use ...
... population , they only make up 9 percent of drug - related deaths . In contrast , over - 35 - year - old users , who make up a tad below half of the total population ( 48 percent ) , and , as we saw , are strikingly less likely to use ...
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... population at large and found truly striking differences . While one - half of 1 percent of the general population said that they had used heroin in the month prior to the survey , a 1982 NIDA survey revealed , 12 percent of the inmate ...
... population at large and found truly striking differences . While one - half of 1 percent of the general population said that they had used heroin in the month prior to the survey , a 1982 NIDA survey revealed , 12 percent of the inmate ...
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... population as a whole . As we saw , only 6 percent of the American population said that they used one or more illicit drugs during the last month ; for marijuana , it was 5 percent , and for cocaine , below 1 percent . Clearly then ...
... population as a whole . As we saw , only 6 percent of the American population said that they used one or more illicit drugs during the last month ; for marijuana , it was 5 percent , and for cocaine , below 1 percent . Clearly then ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
POTENTIAL VERSUS REALLIFE EFFECTS | 7 |
A DOZEN PRINCIPLES OF CLEAR THINKING ABOUT DRUGS | 13 |
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