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Article: Teen drug experimentation rates same as in 1970s: conversion from initial use to addiction is most strongly influenced by the nature of the drug itself.(Adolescent Health)
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- Internal Medicine News
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- April 1, 2005
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NEW YORK -- The number of teenagers who experiment with recreational drugs is nearly the same as it was during its peak years in the early 1970s, James Anthony, Ph.D., reported at the annual conference of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease.
Dr. Anthony, who is chairman of the department of epidemiology at Michigan State University, East Lansing, said the trend in the past decade has been approximately 2.5 million new teenage cannabis users each year, an almost identical number as was seen in the early 1970s. The number of people under the age of 18 years in the United States is also nearly identical to the figure from the early '70s.
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