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Prepared for Ahmad M. | Delivered August 10, 2019
Impact of Drug Abuse
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Goals
To understand the impact of drug abuse in order to educate others on the harmful effects of drugs.
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Early Findings
This
source
provides information and insights surrounding drug addiction and the negative effects it can have. One in four deaths results from illicit drug use.
Substance use disorders are
treatable
.
The resources
here
cover a variety of drug related issues, including information on
drug usage
,
emergency room data
, prevention and treatment programs, and
other research findings
.
This
source
describes nationwide US trends in drug abuse and addiction, focusing on past-month use for illicit drugs (including marijuana and prescription drugs), alcohol, and tobacco.
According to the
National Survey on Drug Use
and Health (NSDUH), 19.7 million American adults (aged 12 and older) battled a substance use disorder in 2017.
In 2017, approximately 4% of the American adolescent
population age 12 to 17
suffered from a substance use disorder; this equals 992,000 teens or 1 in 25 people in this age group.
Heroin use
among young adults between 18 and 25 years old has doubled in the past decade.
Drug abuse also has
adverse effects
on the addict’s immediate family.
Several studies
have found that a large percentage of child abuse and
domestic abuse
cases involve the use of drugs or alcohol.
The connection between
drug addiction, alcoholism, and violence
crosses many thresholds (individual psychology, public health, and domestic violence, to name a few), and is vitally important in understanding the scope of how controlled substances can affect people.
Before seeking treatment for
substance abuse
, the rate of violent acts was as high as 72 percent among men and 50 percent among women.
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