Though most illicit drug use by teens declined over the past decade, teen prescription drug misuse steadily increased (Johnston, O'Malley, Bachman, & Schulenburg, 2008). In 2003, roughly 2.3 million teens in the U.S. reported lifetime nonmedical use of a prescription drug (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMHSA], 2004). By 2008, that number had jumped to 4.7 million teens, or one roughly in five teens in the U.S. (Partnership Tracking Study [PATS], 2009). In contrast, from 2002 to 2008, reported lifetime marijuana use among teens aged 12 to 17 decreased from 20.6 % to 16.5 % (SAMHSA, 2009). In addition, of the estimated 1.7 million emergency room visits in the U.S. in 2006 related to drug misuse, more than 700,000
A study was done by the DEA in 2004 in which 19.1 million Americans aged 12 or older used illicit drugs in the 30 days prior to the study. A whopping 14.6 million of those people had used Marijuana, making it the most commonly used in
• In 2006 over 1 million people were treated for drug or alcohol problems. • Reported by the statistical abstract of the U.S 2008 • In the book Addiction, Eric Niiler states “addiction is a disease.” • In the book drug abuse, the office of national drug control policy states “treatment programs have been proven to reduce drug abuse.” IV. Organizations that deal with depression addiction suicide and self injury. • Many people are affected by depression drug abuse and suicide every day. • How many of you know someone having a problem with any of the things I just listed.
Gonnorhea is a very common disease. CDC estimates gonnorhea effects about 700,00 people in the U.S. each year. Less then half of these cases are reported. Gonnorhea can affect anyone who is sexually active. The most common reports of gonnorhea are from sexually active teenagers, young adults, and black people.
During the last decade, the suicide rate, though relatively stable, has been about double the rate throughout most of the period from1921 to 1961 and well above previous highs recorded during the Depression of the 1930s. Take Quebec as an example, it is one of the provinces in Canada, which has a 7.2 million mostly population, occupies a territory that is three times the size of California. (Lambert, Chagnon, Renaud & Rivard, 2004)While it has the highest death rate of suicide-20.7 per 100,000 populations in the 15-19 age teenage group compare to the average number in America which is 12.0 per 100,000 populations in 15-24 age group (Peters & Murphy, 1998), and the average death number of suicide in whole Canada which is 11.5 per 100,000 populations in 1996 (Statistics Canada, 1998). Furthermore, the main reason of
According to the Juvenile Arrests 2001 Report, law enforcement agencies in the United States made an estimated 2.3 million arrests of persons under age 18 (2001). Juveniles accounted for 17% of arrests and 15% of violent crime arrests in 2001 according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Most of the crimes in which juveniles committed were violent crimes. The main crimes committed were drug abuse and simple assault. In 2001, for the seventh consecutive year, the rate of juvenile arrests for Violent Crime Index offense murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault declined (2001).
Research shows that teenage mothers may come from violent homes, single parent homes, have poor self-esteem, a history of depression, and a history of drug or alcohol abuse (Quinlivan, Tan, Steele & Black, 2004). The average teen mother is 17.5 years old. UNITED STATES birth rates are higher than any other country. $9 billion are spent annually on teen pregnancy. Florida alone had 354,000 teen births between 1991 and 2004, costing taxpayers $8.1 billion.
In 2002-2003 the British crime survey found that 36% using Class A (cocaine, heroin) drugs. Cannabis is the most frequently reported drug with around 3 million users per year and 16-24-year olds were the age group most likely to us e illicit drugs in the past year (28%). The latest survey of school children by the department of health reported that 21 % had used drugs in the past year wit 12% admitting to having used in the past month, as with adults, cannabis was the most frequently used
Since the mid-1950s, suicide rates around the world have risen by 60%. Rates among young people have risen even faster, to the point where they are now the age group at highest risk in 35% of the world’s countries. The specific demographics, however, vary from country to country. China’s pattern, for example, is very different from that of most other countries. China has a suicide mortality rate of 23:100,000, with a total of 287,000 deaths by suicide each year.
Older adults are among one of the fastest growing populations of the United States; in 1990 one in eight persons was older than the age of 65; by 2030, this ratio will decline to one in five (Wan, Sengupta, Velkoff, & Debarros, 2005). The US Census Bureau estimates that by 2030 the persons aged 65 or older will make up about 20% of the U.S population. The state of California will be experiencing a disproportionate growth in the number of elderly. California is one of the states with the largest number of elderly which was 3 million in 1993 projected by US census bureau and has reached 3.7 million. The United States Census Bureau predicts that in the next twenty years the number of elderly in California will increase from 3.7