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	Recreational drug use - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Recreational drug use is the use of psychoactive drugs for recreational rather than medical or spiritual purposes, although the distinction is not always clear.
		A distinction must be made from (recreational) drug use and drug abuse, although there is much controversy on where the dividing line lies on the spectrum from a drug user to a drug abuser.
		Recreational use of opium (extracted from the immature fruits of a species of poppy) was once common in Asia, and from there spread to the West.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /recreational_drug_use.htm (992 words)

	Bureau of Justice Statistics, Drugs and Crime Facts: Drug Use and Crime
		Drug offenders (42%) and property offenders (37%) reported the highest incidence of drug use at the time of the offense.
		In 1997 this gap in prior drug use was narrowed, as the percentage of Federal inmates reporting past drug use rose to 73%, compared to 83% of State inmates.
		This increase was mostly due to a rise in the percentage of Federal prisoners reporting prior use of marijuana (from 53% in 1991 to 65% in 1997) and cocaine-based drugs (from 37% in 1991 to 45% in 1997).
	www.ojp.usdoj.gov /bjs/dcf/duc.htm (3383 words)

	Drug Use and Justice: An Examination of California Drug Policy Enforcement
		Even more surprising, while a drug dealer or manufacturer was much more likely to be imprisoned than a drug possession offender in the 1980s and before, today an offender arrested for low-level drug possession is considerably more likely to be imprisoned than one arrested for felony drug manufacture or sale.
		Correlational analysis is used to determine the relationship between increased rates of arrest and imprisonments for drugs and crime and drug abuse death rates by county.
		Increased drug arrests and imprisonment are not correlated with decreases in violent and property crime (in fact, they are more likely to be associated with increases), and high levels of drug arrests and imprisonment are not associated with lower rates of crime (the results are entirely random).
	www.cjcj.org /pubs/cadrug/cadrug.html (3427 words)

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		Drug use refers to the use of a drug in such a manner that it achieves the purposes for which it was taken with minimal hazard to the user or others around the user.
		Social/recreational use of drugs has been defined as use that occurs within social settings and is motivated by a desire to share pleasurable experiences among friends.
		Both definitions imply that the person choosing to use psychoactive drugs in a social/recreational context has the responsibility of using the drugs with minimal hazard and of contributing to the pleasurable experience of being with friends in a social setting.
	www.geocities.com /responsibleuse (227 words)

	HIV Prevention & injecting drug use
		Because injecting drug use is illegal in most countries, it is hard to know exactly how many people inject drugs and how many share their equipment.
		For injecting drug users using such programmes, they decrease the proportion of needles and syringes that are contaminated, reducing the likelihood of HIV transmission.
		There is clear evidence that syringe and needle exchange schemes neither increase drug use as a result of providing access to sterile equipment, nor increase the frequency of injection among those using such schemes, or the number of new initiates to injecting drug use.
	www.avert.org /druguse.htm (956 words)

	Drug Use During Pregnancy
		Heroin, cocaine, and other addictive drugs are not necessarily deforming substances, but use can cause withdrawal in the newborn as well as growth retardation in the unborn baby.
		Drugs can have harmful effects on the fetus at any time during the pregnancy, their nature depending on the timing of exposure.
		During the last 12 weeks of pregnancy, drug use poses the greatest risk for stunting fetal growth and causing pre-term birth.
	www.addictionca.com /drug-use-pregnancy.htm (895 words)

	eMedicine - Injecting Drug Use : Article by Gloria J Baciewicz, MD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Injecting drug use is associated with many local and systemic complications for the individual and also is associated with the transmission of infectious diseases via needle sharing and sexual activity.
		Injecting drug use is a popular route of drug administration because the injected substance has almost 100% bioavailability, and the onset of the drug high is fairly rapid, generally 15-30 seconds.
		To reduce risks associated with injecting drug use, clinicians and public health workers must raise awareness of the health consequences and risks of injection, make contact with the target population by improving access and outreach, provide the means to change risky behavior, and gain political and community support for the measures introduced.
	www.emedicine.com /MED/topic586.htm (5565 words)

	II. America’s Drug Abuse Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		While drug use and its consequences threaten Americans of every socio-economic background, geographic region, educational level, and ethnic and racial identity, the effects of drug use are often felt disproportionally.
		Encouragingly, the use of inhalants -- the third-most-common illicit substance -- declined among eighth, tenth, and twelfth graders in 1996.
		Drug trafficking generates tens of billions of dollars a year; the total amount of money involved cannot be calculated precisely.
	www.ncjrs.org /htm/chapter2.htm (5701 words)

	Drug War Facts: Drug Use Estimates
		Below are the results of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health 2004, showing estimates of the US population aged 12 and over who admit to using substances.
		Rates of illicit drug use during the past 12 months showed a parallel pattern to the 30-day use except at a higher level, as would be expected.
		Use declined from 36.7% in 1980 to 6.9% in 2002.
	www.drugwarfacts.org /druguse.htm (1283 words)

	Drug Use and HIV \| The New Mexico Aids Info Net
		Drug use is a major factor in the spread of HIV infection.
		Drug users are less likely to take all of their medications, and street drugs may have dangerous interactions with HIV medications.
		Drug use is a major cause of new HIV infections.
	www.aidsinfonet.org /articles.php?articleID=154 (952 words)

	Statistics on Teen Drug Use (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The prevalence of marijuana use among youth did not change significantly between 1997 when it was 9.4 percent and 1998 when it was 8.3 percent.
		Youth marijuana use reached a peak of 14.2 percent in 1979, declined to 3.4 percent in 1992, more than doubled from 1992 to 1995 (8.2 percent), and has fluctuated since then (7.1 in 1996 and 9.4 percent in 1997).
		Cocaine use reached a peak of 5.7 million or 3.0 percent of the population in 1985.
	www.drugfreeschools.com /statistics.html (309 words)

	Prescription Drug Use and Abuse
		Manufactured by Purdue Pharma, Stamford, Conn., the drug was originally believed to pose a lower risk for abuse because it is a controlled-release drug designed to be taken orally and swallowed whole, says Deborah Leiderman, M.D., director of the Food and Drug Administration's controlled substance staff.
		Young says that physical dependence, which is sometimes unavoidable, develops when an individual is exposed to a drug at a high enough dose for long enough that the body adapts and develops a tolerance for the drug.
		A drug program in prison helped her beat addiction and taught her to cope with the triggers or life stressors that pushed her down the path to drug abuse.
	www.fda.gov /fdac/features/2001/501_drug.html (3322 words)

	Drug Use 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Unfortunately, all of the Tricyclics and earlier SSRI drugs, in addition to their target agonist activity of blocking the reuptake of serotonin, also secondarily and concurrently block a wide range of important neuroreceptors and cytochrome P450 isoenzymes, paving the way for many adverse side effects and drug interactions.
		In this population, the use of an antidepressant drug should be reserved for those with a documented major depressive component (Unipolar or Bipolar II depression) on a prolonged and not only, transient basis.
		Using past and current behaviour analysis data for the client, determine which one of the three management (response) scenarios most accurately defines the client overall functioning.
	www.netrover.com /~southgve/druguse2.htm (2645 words)

	Bureau of Justice Statistics Drugs and Crime Facts: Drug use in the general population
		Self-reports of drug use among high school seniors may under represent drug use among youth of that age because high school dropouts and truants are not included, and these groups may have more involvement with drugs than those who stay in school.
		Reported use of marijuana by high school seniors during the past month peaked in 1978 at 37% and declined to its lowest level in 1992 at 12%.
		The use of cocaine within the past month of the survey by high school seniors peaked in 1985 at 6.7%, up from 1.9% in 1975 at the survey's inception.
	www.ojp.usdoj.gov /bjs/dcf/du.htm (1313 words)

	Drug use - Intro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Drugs are part of that adolescent and teen environment, and the decisions that they make about using drugs can effect not only there teen development, but the rest of their life.
		The information presented on drug use data is primarily from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), Monitoring the Future Study (MTF) and from the U.S. Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (YRBSS).
		MTF is an annual survey on drug use and related attitudes of America's adolescents that began in 1975.
	www.caresproject.org /docs/ed/drug/text.htm (752 words)

	Drug Use Is Life Abuse Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Drug Use is Life Abuse has achieved many successes in this area thanks to the ongoing support of our members.
		The goal of Drug Use Is Life Abuse/Project: No Gangs is to create an attitude that will eliminate drug abuse, gangs, and violence.
		To address the needs of Orange County's youths, Drug Use Is Life Abuse/Project: No Gangs has created drug and gang education and awareness programs for children from kindergarten through high school.
	www.duila.org (120 words)

	VoteMatch: Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against them
		At congressional hearings on ‘The Pros and Cons of Drug Legalization, Decriminalization, and Harm Reduction’ in June 1999, the federal government reiterated its opposition to legalization, medical marijuana, and needle exchanges, and emphasized that the War on Drugs is an unending effort.
		Describing drug use as a health problem (instead of a crime problem) is a buzzword for treatment.
		Equating alcoholism with drug abuse is a buzzword for marijuana legalization, as is pointing out the hypocrisy of respecting the right of self-harm with alcohol but not of self-harm with drugs.
	www.issues2000.org /VoteMatch/q12.asp (951 words)

	Welcome to the MTF Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		New 2004 Press Release "Overall teen drug use continues gradual decline; but use of inhalants rises." Text and associated tables and figures are available.
		Questions include drug use and views about drugs, delinquency and victimization, changing roles for women, confidence in social institutions, concerns about energy and ecology, and social and ethical attitudes.
		The Decline of Substance Use in Young Adulthood: Changes in Social Activities, Roles, and Beliefs examines why the new freedoms and responsibilities of young adulthood cause substance use to change.
	www.monitoringthefuture.org (412 words)

	Theories of Drug Use (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This perspective seeks to answer the why of drug use based on the idea that drug use is non-normative (wrong, bad, immoral, pathological).
		Marijuana use is an index of involvement in the subculture.
		There appears, then, to be a coherent pattern which explains drug use, yet it is not simplistic or unilineal; but complex, segmented and reflexive.
	www.umsl.edu /~rkeel/180/theordrg.html (1374 words)

	IV Drug Use
		Using your own works is the best protection against HIV exposure from needles.
		Before using bleach, flush the syringe with water to rinse fresh or dried blood that may remain in the barrel.
		If people do use injected drugs, it is best not to share their syringes.
	www.acadianacares.com /drugs.htm (798 words)

	OAS Home of Alcohol, Tobacco & Drug Abuse Statistics from Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services ...
		State estimates for use of types of illicit drug in lifetime, past year, and past month for population age 12 and older (annual estimates based on 2002-2004) Word Documents
		Based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, in 2004, persons aged 12 or older who lived in metropolitan areas were more likely to abuse or be dependent on alcohol or an illicit drug during the past year than those living in non-metropolitan areas.
		SAMHSA's 2004 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 1.4 million persons aged 12 or older (0.6% of the population) had used methamphetamine in the past year, and 600,000 persons (0.2% of the population) had used methamphetamine in the past month.
	www.drugabusestatistics.samhsa.gov (1169 words)

	National Institute of Justice - Programs
		The Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) program collected data about drug using, drug and alcohol dependency and treatment, and drug market participation among recently booked arrestees (within 48 hours) in 40 communities around the United States.
		This NIJ report presents data on drug use among arrestees in ADAM program sites across the United States and explores variations by site and region.
		In addition, this form must be accompanied by a written proposal explaining your intended use of the data.
	www.adam-nij.net (463 words)

	NIDA Drugs of Abuse and Related Topics - Monitoring the Future
		The 2001 study surveyed more than 44,000 students in 424 schools across the nation about their lifetime use, past year use, past month use, daily use of drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes and smokeless tobacco.
		National Survey on Drug Use and Health (formerly called the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse) - reports on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use.
		The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
	www.nida.nih.gov /DrugPages/MTF.html (576 words)

	N C H S - FASTATS - Illegal Drug Use
		Percent of persons 12 years of age and over with any illicit drug use in the past month: 8.2 (2003)
		Percent of persons 12 years of age and over with any nonmedical use of a psychotherapeutic drug in the past month: 2.7 (2003)
		Use of selected substances by high school seniors, eighth-, and tenth-graders, 1980-2003
	www.cdc.gov /nchs/fastats/druguse.htm (116 words)

	The WWW VL Public Health: Selected Topics - Drug Use
		DPF believes that the drug war is not working: It erodes individual rights, is extremely expensive, creates a new class of criminals, subsidizes a violent fl market, does not control drug use trends, and ignores the health aspects of drug use.
		The ongoing exhibit, now known as Human Rights and the Drug War, is a project of Human Rights 95 (HR95) and presents the Drug War in the context of its violations of The UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights"
		The guiding principle of the center is harm reduction, an alternative approach to drug policy and treatment that focuses on minimizing the adverse effects of both drug use and drug prohibition.
	www.ldb.org /vl/top/top-drug.htm (809 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Portugal legalises drug use
		The Portuguese Government has voted to decriminalise the consumption of illegal drugs such as cannabis and heroin.
		Drug users will now be treated as sick people in need of medical help.
		Previously, drug users and those caught in possession of small amounts of banned drugs for personal use faced up to a year's imprisonment.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/newsid_823000/823257.stm (301 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Sir Paul reveals Beatles drug use
		The musician said he also took cocaine "for about a year" but was "never completely crazy" about the drug.
		But the singer said it was "easy to overestimate" the influence of drugs on the Beatles' material.
		McCartney's drug use made headlines in January 1980 when he arrived at Tokyo's Narita Airport for an eleven-date tour with his band Wings.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3769511.stm (584 words)

	hiv.drugabuse.gov - A Service of the National Institute on Drug Abuse
		Research shows that use of drugs, injected or not, can affect decisionmaking - particularly about engaging in unsafe sex - that can endanger one's health and the health of others.
		Social Networks, Drug Abuse, and HIV Infection - Brings together research in areas of drug treatment and prevention.
		The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the principal biomedical and behavioral research agency of the United States Government.
	hiv.drugabuse.gov (356 words)

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