Admit it. If you came into a realm that reflected me, you'd run. I see you horsefuckers and come straight at you. That is not a bubble.
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Editors' SummaryBackground.Understanding how much disability and death a particular disease causes (known as the “burden of disease”) is important. Knowing the burden of a disease in a country contributes to the development of healthier nations by directing strategies and policies against the disease. Researchers' understanding of the burden of diseases across different countries was piecemeal until the 1990 launch of a special World Health Organization (WHO) project, the Global Burden of Disease Project. In 2002, on the basis of updated information from this ongoing project, the WHO estimated that 91 million people were affected by alcohol use disorders and 15 million by drug use disorders.Why Was This Study Done?It is widely accepted that alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drug use are linked with a considerable amount of illness, disability, and death. However, there are few high-quality data quantifying the amount across different countries, especially in less-developed countries. The researchers therefore set out to collect basic patterns of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and cocaine use in different countries. They documented lifetime use of these substances in each county, focusing on young adults. They also wanted to examine the age of onset of use and whether the type of drugs used was affected by one's social and economic status.What Did the Researchers Do and Find?Data on drug use were available from 54,069 survey participants in 17 countries. The 17 countries were determined by the availability of collaborators and on funding for the survey. Trained lay interviewers carried out face-to-face interviews (except in France where the interviews were done over the telephone) using a standardized, structured diagnostic interview for psychiatric conditions. Participants were asked if they had ever used (a) alcohol, (b) tobacco (cigarettes, cigars or pipes), (c) cannabis (marijuana, hashish), or (d) cocaine. If they had used any of these drugs, they were asked about the age they started using each type of drug. The age of first tobacco smoking was not assessed in New Zealand, Japan, France, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, or Spain. The interviewers also recorded the participants' sex, age, years of education, marital status, employment, and household income.The researchers found that in the Americas, Europe, Japan, and New Zealand, alcohol had been used by the vast majority of survey participants, compared to smaller proportions in the Middle East, Africa, and China. The global distribution of drug use is unevenly distributed with the US having the highest levels of both legal and illegal drug use among all countries surveyed. There are differences in both legal and illegal drug use among different socioeconomic groups. For example, males were more likely than females to have used all drug types; younger adults were more likely than older adults to have used all drugs examined; and higher income was related to drug use of all kinds. Marital status was found to be linked only to illegal drug use—the use of cocaine and cannabis is more likely in people who have never been married or were previously married. Drug use does not appear to be related to drug policy, as countries with more stringent policies (e.g., the US) did not have lower levels of illegal drug use than countries with more liberal policies (e.g., The Netherlands).What Do These Findings Mean?These findings present comprehensive and useful data on the patterns of drug use from national samples representing all regions of the world. The data will add to the understanding of the global burden of disease and should be useful to government and health organizations in developing policies to combat these problems. The study does have its limitations—for example, it surveyed only 17 of the world's countries, within these countries there were different rates of participation, and it is unclear whether people accurately report their drug use when interviewed. Nevertheless, the study did find clear differences in drug use across different regions of the world, with the US having among the highest levels of legal and illegal drug use of all the countries surveyed.
Drug use does not appear to be related to drug policy, as countries with more stringent policies (e.g., the US) did not have lower levels of illegal drug use than countries with more liberal policies (e.g., The Netherlands).What Do These Findings Mean?
no one avoids drugs because it's illegal, they avoid it as a personal decision. it's too readily available and too easy to get away with it to actually be that scared of getting caught... unless you're a gigantic fucking pussy
I'll sum it upQuoteDrug use does not appear to be related to drug policy, as countries with more stringent policies (e.g., the US) did not have lower levels of illegal drug use than countries with more liberal policies (e.g., The Netherlands).What Do These Findings Mean? War on Drugs
? Did you just admit to being a gigantic fucking pussy? I'm so confused
Quote from: Mupepe on July 01, 2008, 09:35:58 AM? Did you just admit to being a gigantic fucking pussy? I'm so confusedI cant figure it out either, but even if he did, better to be a huge fucking pussy than the biggest douche in the universe like john Edwards
Quote from: Mupepe on June 30, 2008, 11:02:41 PMno one avoids drugs because it's illegal, they avoid it as a personal decision. it's too readily available and too easy to get away with it to actually be that scared of getting caught... unless you're a gigantic fucking pussyYeah. If you get arrested for doing drugs, you done fucked up. I just don't do drugs because I always need to be ready to stab someone. If my mindset is messed up, I might end up stabbing someone I didn't want to stab.
why would you want to stab someone to begin with? you should be on drugs if you think of stabbing people and that being a reason to not take drugs.
oh. misread your comment. let's eat a lemon together
Quote from: Mupepe on July 01, 2008, 01:46:21 PMoh. misread your comment. let's eat a lemon togethersounds like a party waiting to happen
I'm just trying to find the subtext in there. I mean, do you stick the lemon up the other dude's cornhole then eat it or what?
You guys are way to good at the gay supertext.
Quote from: Rebiak on July 01, 2008, 04:00:14 PMYou guys are way to good at the gay supertext.I think you are looking too hard for it.
The biggest irony of it all was when it came out how much miss Nancy Reagan likes her pills.I hope you burn in hell you hypocratic witch.
