Drug Abuse Treatment | Major Developments

November 14, 2011

Narcotics Officers Pulled Out 8600+ Marijuana Plants in California

Filed under: Health — Tags: Drug Abuse Treatment — Winson @ 10:14 AM

Abusing of Marijuana which is also called as marihuana and cannabis, is a growing problem in the present society. Though many laws were made to control the possession of marijuana, they are not that effective to control the use of marijuana. Every day one or the other story comes in news about marijuana which is increasing the severity of the condition.

Very recently Narcotics officers from California, destroyed a large garden of marijuana plants in their first outdoor operation of the year. A total of 13 officers from Nevada County Sheriff’s Office and the US Forest Service found a large marijuana garden near Tahoe National Forest property between Graniteville and the Town of Washington in eastern Nevada County.

Officers were successful in pulling out 8625 plants which were still young as it is early in the growing season. The growers of the garden were not found and hence no arrests were made. The officials also reported that the debris left at the place was consistent with the Mexican drug organization which are also known to use public lands.

Since no suspects were found in the garden when the officers arrived, they were suspecting that the people growing the garden may have been tending another garden in the near by area.

There are few more cases in which these kind of things happened but in smaller proportions. Anyhow whatever may be the size of cultivation a little bit of it is enough to spoil large number of the people.

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August 18, 2010

Treatment Statistics of Drug Abuse

Filed under: Substance Abuse — Tags: Drug Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse — Winson @ 8:07 AM

Year by year the usage of drugs has been increasing. Regardless of the age considerations, the usage has been improved. Many people are using different types of drugs for recreational purposes. The illicit usage may lead to addiction and in those cases, treatment is needed. The treatment centers are increasing and the number of people who attend the treatment programs are also increasing.

According to National Survey of Drug And Health(NSDUH), during the year 2008, 7.6 million people aged above 12 were treated for illicit drug usage, which is nearly 3.0% of the total population. During the past year, 1.2 million people, i.e., 0.5% of the total population and 16% of the people needed treatment took the treatment under the specialty facility for an illicit drug use problem. Remaining 6.4 million people did not receive the treatment. The statistics for the years 2007 and 2008 were almost same. When compared to the year 2002 the illicit drug usage has been decreased and the decrement is 0.3%.

Out of people who did not receive the treatment some said that they had put efforts for the treatment, but some of them said that they had not put any efforts to get treated.

Now coming to the statistics of youth, aged between 12 and 17, there were altogether 1.2 million people i.e. Around 4.8% people in need of the treatment for the illicit drugs usage in the year 2008. But out of this, only 111,000 received treatment under the specialty facility which is around 9.3% of the youth need treatment aged between 12 and 17. The rest 1.1 million youth did not receive treatment under specialty facility.

The people who did not take the treatment said so many reasons like not ready to stop using, no health coverage and cannot afford the cost of the treatment.