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October 13, 2010

Drug Abuse Increasingly Influencing Teens

Filed under: Substance Abuse — Tags: , — Winson @ 8:17 AM

From so many years, thousands of American teens and some of their parents have been surveyed by National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse to learn about attitudes and factors by which the teens are influence to abuse drugs.

According to the report, 32 percent of the children who are aged 12 to 13 years, kept or sold drugs in schools and it was 23 percent in the last year. It may increase to 39 percent in future. Teens who are 11 and 13 years old are 33 times more likely to use tobacco and around 3 times more likely to have tried alcohol. 10 percent of teens use marijuana in drug infested schools.

According to the report, the percentage of older teens increases from nearly 51 percentage to 66 percentage in drug infested high schools. According to the findings, children are kept in the place where illicit drugs are common, so they are surrendered by them and they become addicted to drugs. So, it should be prevented. If any child crosses the age 21 years with out smoking, using illicit drugs or abusing alcohol and over use of prescription medicine then he or she never takes them in their life. But, there is difficult to find such type of children.

According to the survey, there are gangs who are associated with drug abuse in schools. Drug abuse can start in schools. Around 60 percent of the schools are drug infested with these gangs.

So, United States is facing the threat of the teen drug abuse problem. There is a significant increase in number of the teen abusers.

September 21, 2010

Drug Test Strips Provides a Wide Range of Marijuana Testing Solutions to Better Serve Its Customers

Filed under: Press — Tags: , , — Winson @ 7:43 AM

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August 18, 2010

Treatment Statistics of Drug Abuse

Filed under: Substance Abuse — Tags: , — 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.

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July 14, 2010

Common Side Effects of Marijuana

Filed under: Substance Abuse — Tags: , , — Winson @ 9:14 AM

Marijuana is one of the illegal drugs in United states, it is also the most commonly abused drug. THC is the one of the dangerous chemical in Marijuana drug. It is dry, shredded green and brown mix flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves taken from the hemp plant.

Marijuana causes many side effects on the users, and some of the common side effects of using Marijuana are trouble in remembering things, user can feel sleepiness, anxiety, paranoia, it alters time perception. These symptoms vary depending upon the person’s health. Suppose if a person who has history of mental or health problems then it is better to not to take the drugs, it will worsen both his or her body and mind.

Using marijuana effects the body and brain of the user, marijuana side effects can be as innocent as increased appetite to lung cancer. It causes accidents, so it is also one of the side effects. Other physical side effects are dry mouth, headache, nausea, tremor, increased heart rate, decreased coordination, altered body temperature, increased food consumption, reduced blood flow to brain, breathing problems, changes in reproductive organs.

There are few side effects on brain like anxiety and panic, paranoia, confusion, aggressiveness, hallucinations, sedation, depersonalization, poor sense of time, worsened short-term memory, addictive behaviors, slowed reaction time, red, blood shot eyes, difficulty in concentrating.

Long time use of marijuana can make a person loose interest in school, work, relationships and other activities and not only these, it also causes some legal problems. Driving under the influence of Marijuana is very dangerous because it impairs your reaction time. So it leads you to dangerous conditions.

June 4, 2010

Smuggling Of Drugs In U.S By Criminal Gangs

Filed under: Substance Abuse — Tags: — Winson @ 9:55 AM

Drug smuggling is mainly done by various kinds of criminal gangs. Among all these groups, Drug trafficking organization (DTOs) are the major drug smugglers. At present Mexico DTOs are the major drug smugglers to the U.S market.

According to the analysis of federal, state, and local data nearly 1 million gang members are active in the United States of America. Hispanic and African American street gangs are expanding because they have greater control over drug distribution in rural and suburban areas. They generally acquire drugs directly from DTOs in Mexico or along the Southwest Border.

In 2009, drugs business is dominated by 900,000 active gang members and these members represent around 20,000 domestic street gangs in more than 2,500 cities. Gangs are varied with respect to ethnic or racial identities or types and amounts of drugs they distribute or by their strength and influence or by their adaptability.

Hispanic prison gangs working in Southwest Border States are gaining strength by working directly with Mexican DTOs. These DTOs helps to acquire wholesale quantities of drugs. Prison gangs are active in 50 states and they are increasing because of the influence over drug trafficking areas.

All above statistics show a clear picture of active drug gangs in U.S market. DTOs are the major originator for gang’s formation because these DTOs help to acquire wholesale quantities of drugs to these gangs.

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