Substance Abuse The Nation's Number One Health Problem

Designed for educators, prevention and treatment practitioners, policymakers, researchers, the media and others. Presents key policy-relevant indicators with an emphasis on trends over time. Beginning with patterns of use, it moves on to the consequences of use and concludes with ways to combat the problem. Data show that tobacco, alcohol and other drug use are down from the peak levels of earlier decades, and the perception of risk associated with substance abuse has increased since then, pockets of high use remain, and risky experimentation by youth continues. Helps provide a better understanding of the nation¹s number one health problem and ways that we can deal with it. Charts and tables.Horgan, Constance is the author of 'Substance Abuse The Nation's Number One Health Problem', published 0009 under ISBN 9780756711191 and ISBN 0756711193.