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Study
Shows
that
Early
Onset
of
Drug
Use
Makes
Addiction
Harder
to
Break
11/23/97
A study by researchers at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada finds
that people who start using drugs at very early ages have a harder time
kicking subsequent addictions. The riskiest age to begin drug use seems
to be around 12 years.
DRCNet Associate Director Adam J. Smith, who spent 12 years working
with children and teens at a community center in Queens, New York, comments,
"The findings here are not surprising, and it's vitally important
that we, as a society, reduce the number of young children using drugs.
Unfortunately, after a decade or more of the DARE program, and hundreds
of billions of dollars spent on enforcement and interdiction, drugs are
more available than ever to our young people, and the age of onset of use
is still declining. Rather than use this study as an excuse for more of
the same demonstrably failed approaches, wouldn't it be refreshing if we
took the opportunity to reassess a system under which we lie to kids under
the guise of education and threaten them under the guise of prevention?"
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Issue #20, 11/23/97
Texas Okays More Prison Construction | NIH Panel Urges Loosening of Restrictions on Methadone | Study Shows that Early Onset of Drug Use Makes Addiction Harder to Break | Brazilian Rock Band Incarcerated for Improper Lyrics | Canadian Mounties Target Medical Marijuana | Six-Year-Old Suspended from School for Sharing Lemon Drops -- Authorities call in ambulance and fire department | BBC Taking Online Poll/Comments on Marijuana Legalization | Public Forum in Minneapolis Drug Policy Reform Legislation in Connecticut | Editorial: Giving Thanks in a Time of (Drug) War
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