LD and Substance Abuse
Substance abuse has always been a major problem in this country. Drug use amongst children has been a growing dilemma that the government has not been able to deal with adequately. With the constant development of new drugs and medications it is difficult to suggest that the drug problem will ever be eradicated. A study conducted in 2002, found that among 8th graders in the United States: 47% drank alcohol, 31% smoked cigarettes, and 19% used marijuana (http://www.reclaimingfutures.org/problem_tdau.asp). These statistics clearly further exemplify the substance abuse problem in the United States.
The term substance abuse is defined as "A destructive pattern of substance use leading to clinically significant (social, occupational, or medical) impairment or distress"(http://www.learningdisabilities.org.uk/wordbank.cfm?wordid=587&wbletter=S). The list of different substances varies from those inhaled products like tobacco and marijuana to ingested......
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