Where Can I Find a List of Reports, Surveys or Statistics About Alcohol and Drug Addiction?
Question by adrian: Where can I find a list of reports, surveys or statistics about alcohol and drug addiction?
I’m looking for more sources about alcohol and drug addiction because I’m finishing my homework. I really love the topic and I really want to present a nice report. I’m not doing this just for the grade but I’m also doing this as a way of spreading awareness so that my classmates will not turn out to be alcoholics and drug addicts.
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Answer by andie
What a nice student! I really admire your desire of spreading social awareness. I’ve posted two links below to help you with your report. Try to do a good job, okay? Be a role model to your classmates. Keep it up!
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Tackling Heroin Use in Afghan South
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Zabihullah admitted that the counter-narcotics department started operating so recently that it had not gathered statistics on drug use. “All I can say is that the number of addicts is increasing,” he said. Nationwide, figures from the Afghan counter …
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Opinion: Taking back New Jersey from grip of heroin crisis
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Heroin accounted for more than one-third of the number of substance abuse treatments in New Jersey last year, even more than alcohol, according to the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality. Nearly half of all treatments for substance …
Read more on The Times of Trenton – NJ.com
New program to target drug overdoses
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Also in 2011, Davidson County's rate of emergency department visits for substance abuse was 942 visits per 100,000 individuals, which was the highest of the seven counties in the Northwest Community Care Network, according to the North Carolina …
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WA heroin use, deaths up, especially in youth
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Both kinds of drugs offer a similar high, and a similar addiction danger, said Caleb Banta-Green, author of the report and a researcher at the University of Washington's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute. The data from Washington mirrors a national …
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