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Drug Abuse Increasing Among Baby Boomers
The report analyzes many aspects of this phenomenon including the types of illicit substances involved, different demographic and behavioral factors associated with higher rates of use, and other issues.
The data used in the analysis comes from a wide range of sources including 16,656 respondents aged 50 to 59 participating in the 2002 through 2007 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health the nations premier national public health survey of its kind.
The baby boom generation are now prime users of the medical system, a survey by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had said two years ago.
Of 2.4 billion drugs mentioned in patients' medical records in 2005, 118 million were antidepressants. High blood pressure drugs followed, with 113 million and arthritis or headache drugs were mentioned in 110 million, CDC noted.
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