The Fire Next Time; Drug Use and Abuse  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8760 (Nov. 2011), page 53-54.
Topik: Drug Abuse; Social Conditions & Trends; Drug Use; Social Research
Fulltext: The fire next time.pdf (41.26KB)

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It is not often that the drugs scene produces good news for Britain, Europe's perennial bad boy, but a report on Nov 15, 2011 from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction offers a few scraps. After years leading the league tables on cannabis use, England and Wales fell below the EU average in 2010 for the first time. People aged between 15 and 34 no longer hold the big-country record for amphetamine use. The rate of drug-induced deaths remains high in a country where drug use is relatively widespread, but at least it has fallen. Domestic studies confirm this picture. As the chart shows, the proportion of young people who have used cannabis in the past year continues to decline from a peak in 1998, according to the British Crime Survey (BCS). Use of class A drugs such as cocaine and heroin has not declined as much, but prior-year use of powder cocaine fell by a third in the two years from 2008-09. Figures from the National Treatment Agency suggest that heroin and crack cocaine are mostly confined to an ageing cohort. National Health Service surveys show that schoolchildren aged between 11 and 15 are going straighter, too. In all, 8.8% of adults, or almost 3m people, admit to having used drugs in the past year, well below the 11.1% who confessed to it in 1996.

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