Graying Drug Addicts
Graying Drug Addicts
A new government study finds the proportion of people treated for drug and alcohol abuse over age 50 nearly doubled between 1992 and 2008.
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" A new study find more and more adults over age fifty are seeking treatment for drug addiction alcoholic by far the most common form of addiction for the over fifty crowd a new government study finds the proportion of older adults in treatment for alcohol and drug abuse nearly doubled between 1992. And 2008. Most say they started using drugs many years earlier before age 25. There was also looked like an older people treated for heroin and cocaine and more and more folks over fifty that they abused prescription drugs and marijuana."
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