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It's important to understand why teens use or misuse drugs, so the right resources and education can help them, Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, wrote in an email.
The Gateway Hypothesis proposes that drug use develops in stages, with early drug use consisting of drugs such as alcohol and tobacco and later dug use consisting of more illicit drug use. Nicotine use itself has been shown to be an early ‘gateway’ drug that increases risk for subsequent cocaine use.
Babies were killed by their mother, while a bigger child "would be killed by the father by being beaten on the head". [49] But cases of women killing older children are on record too. In 1904 a parish priest in Broome, Western Australia , stated that infanticide was very common, including one case where a four-year-old was "killed and eaten by ...
Female perpetrators were more likely to have given birth as teenagers. Fathers were more likely to have been convicted of violent offences and have a history of substance misuse, and were more likely to kill multiple victims. Infants were more likely to be victims than older children, and a link to post-partum depression was suggested. [4]
During that time, the rate of drug overdose deaths involving heroin more than tripled, the report says, while the rate of drug overdose deaths involving methamphetamine more than doubled.
Now drug cartels are distributing the lethal opioid in rainbow-colored pills that are apparently intended to appeal to children and teenagers. On Aug. 30, the Drug Enforcement Administration ...
Sweden is an excellent example. Drug use is just a third of the European average while spending on drug control is three times the EU average. For three decades, [nb 1] Sweden has had consistent and coherent drug-control policies, regardless of which party is in power. There is a strong emphasis on prevention, drug laws have been progressively ...
For example, depression and drug use among LGBTQ people have been shown to increase significantly after the passage of laws which are considered discriminatory. [3] By contrast, the passage of laws that recognize LGBTQ people as equal with regard to civil rights, such as laws supporting same-sex marriage , may have significant positive impacts ...