Drug use during pregnancy places both mother and infant at risk for serious health problems. A child may become addicted to heroin in its mother's womb—provided the child is born at all (fetal death is a possibility). Cocaine use by the pregnant mother carries similar risks to the fetus and may kill the mother too. LSD use may lead to birth defects. PCP users may have smaller-than-no…
Drug use may begin before birth, but habituation tends to start in school. Appropriately enough, the nation's most comprehensive survey of drug use in youth is called Monitoring the Future (MTF). It is conducted annually by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan under the sponsorship of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The survey began in 1975 and initially foc…
Drug use in the workplace is tracked by SAMHSA in its national survey that captures the employment status of its survey respondents (http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/NHSDA/A-11/TOC.htm). The SAMHSA survey is based on self-reporting. The results of drug tests performed on behalf of private and public employers are another lens FIGURE 4.10 Percentage of 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students who used heroi…
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), through the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health, conducts surveys of drug use in the military at three- to four-year intervals. The DOD surveys go back to 1980, with the latest available data being for 2002. Military personnel are concentrated in the younger age groups most prone to use drugs; the military may also be said to be one of the …
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