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thats because you have dopers from the 60s that wouldnt give up their drugs! freakin potheads!
Heh, "Dopers". You're old.
It's because there was a population growth! I think they called it the Baby Boom! This is a non-story. You know, the kind of story that gets the news media called the Lame Stream Media and people like nick called an idiot. Idiot!
That's right! Duhhhh... everyone knows this, why do we need a msn article mentioning this??
These people are boomers that got high in the 60s and 70s and now that their kids moved out, they got some extra time and money to blow off.
Pot!!! Really?? If you need to go to rehab for smoking weed, you have more problems then just smoking weed.
I was going to say the same thing. I can see needing rehab for Drinking, cocaine , herion and even pills BUT not POT!!!!!!!!!! What withdrawals do you suffer from not smoking POT?
Something to keep in mind when reading this study? We are talking about a generation that is living markedly longer then generations prior, and are therefore showing signs and symptoms of disease and addiction that would have been unheard of previously. Couple that with the fact that seeking treatment for drug addiction is also far more acceptable for this same generation than it was for the generations prior, and it should come as no surprise that we are seeing a greater incidence of addiction.
I think we should spend more time trying to figure out how we are going to care for the millions of people who are rapidly coming to an age most American's could never have even dreamed of, and less time putting money into articles that seem so surprised that people have various issues as they age!
Sheesh! My own mother's parents were both dead before they each hit 45, while my Mother and all her siblings are still alive and over 68!
sad, but true.
i wonder what % of those marijuana addicts were court forced and what % were voluntary
This has nothing to do with an increase in use. This has to do with drug testing, technology, etc. If you get caught, you legally have to go for treatment, hence, you become part of a rising electronic tracking system. It's possible that usage has gone down, but tracking usage has expanded exponentially. The other part of the change has to do with a change in sediment towards these things, as it's more acceptable to seek treatment now, because it's looked at as a disease. Studies like this are bogus, and used to increase funding for treatment centers and insurance coverage. Marijuanna addiction??? Marijuanna is not addictive, but if you get caught at work, you have to seek treatment to keep your job.
I got caught at work. I work in an office for crying out loud! I just laughed!! Told the owner what a wast of time and money testing was. He stopped testing office workers. A bunch of us went out for drinks one time and he came. He came outside and smoked with us. I still have my job. He is an uptight drunk idiot who lives off his dads efforts. Stand up for yourselves. Dont puss out. life is way to short to live by nazi rules.
I'm having trouble understanding something here. I must have smoked and drank too much but it says that admissions primarily related to alcohol abuse decreased from 84.6% in 1992 to 59.9% in 2008. Where did the 84.6% number come from? Were 84.6% of us alcoholics in 1992? Were there only 59.9% of us alcoholics in 2008? Are there only 2.9% of us with marijuana problems? Maybe all those drunks should go out and buy a pipe. I think I better go have a drink and toke and read this article again to make some sense out of it.
Doctors are so afraid of being sued for prescribing addictive medication for patients, that many older folks with arthritis and other painful afflictions are being under medicated. Many of these people are turning to their kids and grandkids to obtain opiates from street dealers. I am not saying that is the entire reason for the phenomenon, but it certainly contributes to it (I am sure the main cause is that drug users are just getting older) Back in my mom's day, doctors weren't afraid to prescribe codeine and other effective pain killers. Now they just prescribe overly expensive NSAIDs like Vioxx that kill the patient rather than the pain. I recently spoke with a dealer who said nearly his entire customer base was over 55. He actually made deliveries to nursing homes.
Damn people abusing marijuana! It should be a crime! Poor marijuana... it shouldn't ever have to suffer abuse =(. I mean gosh darnit it never hurt anyone why would anyone abuse it!? Tsk tsk tsk... people should be ashamed. Save marijuana from abuse and give it a good home! Adopt-a-Bud today!
Funny JGL
I think it's amazing that the leading causes of death cigarettes, alcohol and prescription drugs are legal. These are the true ills of the country. Cigarette, alcohol abd drug companies are the largest legal drug dealers ever and we waste our time on petty crack dealers. There is something really wrong.
To be more accurate, stupidity is the leading cause of death in the U.S.
If you are 50+, you are an adult product of the 60s, 70,s and 80's. Corporate pharmascience used these adults as testes for all sort of narcotics and to drive forward their profits. There is no coincedence that hospitals have risen to power to treat the side-effects of living off pills for 30 years. This "emipre" is linear is cant see anything that is off the path of past, present and future.
Everything is connected, yet science provides points solutions for symptoms without looking up or downstream.
These articles are like flares but everyone sits in their lawn chairs complaining that the fireworks suck.
The way things are going now makes me hope I am dead before the age 50+
Cherish the past, enjoy the present, fight the future.
<<<,If you are 50+, you are an adult product of the 60s, 70,s and 80's. Corporate pharmascience used these adults as testes>>>
OMG-Someone made a testes out of me???
How will this affect my marriage?
When I was a kid, we used to drive by the bowery in NYC and see men and women sitting on the sidewalks bombedout of their minds, not in pristine nursing homes being coddled at the taxpayers' expense. If they want to self-destruct (and destruct their families until enough is enough) sobeit! The number of people who cannot (or refuse to learn how to) function in society seem to be outnumbering all the dumb slobs who go to work and try to live a decent life but are being taxed and taxed to enable this behavior. It is truly disgusting.
So basically marijuana is the least problematic of all drugs available to citizens of the U.S. The next step is clear.
I'm over 50 and it's been a long time since I have indulged. However, I can say as a representative of my generation that back in 1976 when I graduated from High School Pot was so widely accepted that everybody smoked it. And I do mean everybody. It was so much a part of our society back then that it was practically a part of the curriculum and when it came time to graduate, if you couldn't roll a joint; you had to go to summer school.
Not much has changed. I don't think pot is really an issue; it shouldn't be lumped in with narcotics, just not the same thing.
"America’s addicts are graying"
..... and running for the highest offices.
Another knee-jerk reaction from the media who have nothing better to do than harp on crap like this. Legalize pot, tax it, and discover the revenue enhancement that will follow. As for all the "nyetniks" who want everything to be legislated...move to China!
Maybe if more of you indulged in a little weed, they'd be less inclined to act like a-holes!
The a-hole you refer to is in the mirror. Smoke it up you dope.
Moron, for sure.
I guess the dopes would want to put that 'revenue enhancement' towards the family members that they can't support while on their little trips.
Sometimes, pathetic lives have no end while their rationale had no beginning.
u realize that to LEGalize it they would have to LEGislate, right? so are you for or against legislation? oh you are only against the legislation you dont like? i get it now
Nothing like pointing out the obvious, Oh No. Very insightful, fact filled post. Go grab your beer, change your "wife beater", and drive your pick up down to the local bar and talk about huntin' and fishin' so you can get YOUR preferred buzz, then get out on the road and drive like a moron.
Mark my words. Sooner or later (probably sooner) there will be legislation that legalizes the use of medical marijuana on a Federal level. Several states have already done so in violation of federal law but are pretty much left alone as the ATF have much more important things to do. Closing down meth labs, shutting off heroin supplies, arresting gun runners, etc........
These are the people from the 60's who are running this country now. I am ashamed to admit I grew up in that era. I saw students high all the time, never going to classes and growing up to be leeches of society. Now, they want free healthcare in addition to Medicare and social security, all 76 million of them ready to get on the freebie bandwagon almost immediately. I hope you young fools out there who voted for Obama are satisfied. ObamaCare will make you pay for the rest of your working lives to fund the 60's old coots' retirement. I'll be thinking about you. LOL
Everyone in that age bracket are not strung out on drugs.
But there are plenty, and this study proves it. I say half my classmates in the late 60's flunk out due to too much time spent taking drugs and not enough time in the library. All Woodstock and fun. Janis Joplin and the gang. LSD, marijuana, heroin, it was all the culture of the 60's.
There must be a lot of young brain dead idiots that went to college and can't even pass a 1960 High School Finals Exam and they are not even on drugs that are responding to this story. If you live that long you will be in your 50,60 70's onr day and your up to date doctors will have you hooked on Pharm Drugs before you know it, just hang in there your time is coming. Good luck youngsters.
VFW, man ain't that the truth. I had a doctor at a VA prescribing me 150 percocets per month for headaches. Truthfully, that was great for a while, but I eventually built up a tolerance and finding myself having to take more for the same effect. That's when I said "Whoa!" stuck my butt in rehab and haven't taken any barbiturates for well over a year unless it was necessary. I still have no craving for them and it was a lesson well learned.
Having said that, smoking leaf is still something I find really enjoyable. Anybody who thinks that marijuana is harmful needs to watch the documentary "Super High Me." It's about a guy, a comedian, who smokes all the time and quit for 30 days under a doctor's supervision then began smoking after the 30 days were up. No physiological detriments were found, it was clearly not addictive to him, or anyone else I know that gets high. Note the the figures for people undergoing rehab are minuscule. I'll bet 99% of those folks are in there because they have to be as they may have tested positive for cannabis in a random drug test, etc.......Having a plant being illegal is the height of stupidity to me. If it were legalized tax the crap out of it and a lot of the budget deficits the states are currently undergoing would probably disappear. It's statistically shown as one of the highest cash crops in the United States and that's just based upon what's been discovered! Support NORML and legalize!
if u grew up in that era you would know better. My BS detector is ringing off the wall
I did grow up in that era. First time high was '69; answer your BS phone. Probably somebody telling you how full of BS you are.
American- I think Oh No was replying to Ben, who sounds fishy to me too.
Well, if that's the case then my heartfelt apologies are in order, and hope will be accepted.
I'll drink to that :)
Yeah me too. But first let me take a hit of this :)
heyyyy thats some good sheeeet ...ya
Don't bogart that please!!
Hey, pass it! Ah, the good old days!!!
Don't make me give you a ticket for parking on the grass!!!! : )
If you walk by a "methadone" clinic, you will see a lot of people 60/70 yrs old hanging out. One morning I left very early to get on a flight. Because it was so early, I took the subway (Live in NYC-Brooklyn) with my luggage in tow because I considered it a substitute workout. Boy or boy. I saw all these "older" women who give the appearance of upstanding citizens coming out of the clinic at 5:00am in the morning. As soon as they saw me they put their heads down and slink-ed off. I was astonished and angry.
At the time my son was living in Seattle and I would fly back and forth about 3/4 times a year and I would be on the "nice-nasty" end of comments talking about how I was always going somewhere. I was astonished because I was shocked because the facade they had put up about who they were had cracked wide open and angry because their remarks came out of bitterness because they were tied to the methadone clinic and couldn't go anywhere. I was not in the same boat they were in and thus un-tethered to the daily dose of methadone.
Our lives are composed of our choices and we must serve the choices we make.
You must be on something because what you just said makes no sense at all.
made perfect sense...they'd rather be free to travel than addicted to a free drug clinic. The better question is what % of the marijuana addicts were forced and what % were voluntary
The question is, are there young people coming in too so the overall number is increasing or are less younger ones starting in the first place and the old ones are dying off.
They just found my best friend from high school, age 59, dead (OD) under a highway overpass.
My condolences, Ben. That's sad.
Why should this surprise anyone? The 50 somethings, were dropping acid, blowing pot and snorting cocaine while practicing "free love" and spreading Aids back in the 70's at the same time the Viet Nam vets were also using opium and pot in the jungles of Viet Nam. That whole generation exposed themselves to the consequences of their actions, one of the worst of which was the addiction of drugs and alcohol. l feel sorry for these people who simply did not consider what would happen to them 30/40 years later. We have all had to live with the consequences of their actions since for some of us, they were our mothers and fathers. For others of us, they were our children. Their actions have had a terrible social and political influence on us as their children and on us as their ageing parents. We have had to watch the collapse of the traditional family, with many of us having 3 or 4 half-brothers and sisters. We also have 3 or 4 step-fathers or mothers. The actions of the children of the 70/80's has forever changed this country and not for the better. They grew up to believe that they could do anything they pleased without restrictions and to believe that they should have whatever they wanted without having to earn it. They grew up with a sense of entitlement that they passed on to their own children. All of us will pay the consequences for this self serving attitude of this generation.
I thought that was called "The American Dream", for your children to have it easier than you did.
Proof that weed doesn't kill you. This cracks me up. Not as harmful as the gov would like it to be I guess.
What? Thought for sure this article was about coffee, cigs, beer and wine! Oh those are the drugs we don't jail people for...yet.
I don't think HIV was around in the '70's. Other than that, though, a clearly non-thought out post if you're just talking about cannabis; everything else like heroin, amphetamines (including meth), barbiturates, etc.....are extremely detrimental to society, and indeed does fracture families and communities. If those are the chemicals being discussed then it's a dead on observation.
ah you obviously haven't seen what beer does to this country or smoking? Both scourges...
rock, I'm on board with that. Since that wasn't the topic I didn't include them in my posts but you're absolutely correct.
No sympathy here. Drug addicts make a choice to do drugs then they want sympathy when they become addicted. Sorry. No can effing do. You make your choices in life. Live by them. I have made mistakes. I have had to live with the consequences of them, as everyone should. The less addicts in this world the better. And before all you holier than thou arseholes open your big fat mouths, I would feel the same way if it were a member of my family. So bite me.
Yeah you sound like a real winner moron!!
marijuana abuse ? Yep I would say they have more problems then smoking dope
No one goes to rehab for their 'marijuana addiction'. That's ridiculous. The reason statistical numbers are up for such a thing is because our laws have caused more innocent people to be arrested for minor pot infringements and then court ordered to rehab for their horrendous marijuana addictions. It's the most idiotic set of laws ever in our history and millions are suffering because of it. Take note that half our prison population is due to drug crimes and the high majority of that is because of a harmless (compared to cigarettes and alcohol) drug called marijuana. Sadly, our judicial system is still utterly controlled by right wing authoritative @!$%#s who have no clue what the real world is all about .. other than how much more power they can gain and control and who they can trample on to keep such control.
It's the pot-smoking baby boomers. It's a gateway drug!
Only if you let it. I know loads of people who are lawyers, cops, engineers, etc.... that get high. Don't be ridiculous.
<<It's a gateway drug!>>
yea why don't you just go to your dr and get a script for some OPIATES and TRANQs?
Then wash it all down with a few drinks.
that's legal.
THis country has got it very twisted. The alcohol companies the tobacco companies and the pharmaceutical companies are the REAL DEALERS.
But they pay the tax to the man.
sooo...where does that leave all us "naturalists"?
damn those sixties, free love and drop acid. only led to huge addiction problems, high divorce rates and aids. paying for all those good times. the old adage, "play you pay" appropriate here.
pot smokers suffer from "dumming down effect";) and thc is as difficult to kick as nicotine or alcohol. stoners are cool as long as they have their pot, and fly off the handle when they don't.
down right nasty after a week or two with out their pot. you must grow your own.
i'm with your doctorjim.
I'm not sure about the "dumming down effect", but I do feel dumber after reading this comment. Sentence fragments, poor punctuation, and even poorer grasp of reality.
// grammar nazi
reeblite you're either pulling our legs here, or you really don't know a darn thing about whereof you speak. It's people like you that have loaded our jails up with basically law abiding citizens who's only illegal act was to smoke a plant. I believe you're the one that's been dumbed down.
u obviously dont know what the f you are talking about
The reason for the rising numbers in rehab for marijuana is because it is court ordered. Go before the judge for simple possession and you can choose between jail time and rehab.
High, my name is Peabody and I'm a marijuana addict. High, Peabody!
High, Peabody! I'm americanwarrior and I'm a marijuana addict. Just got my copy of the 12 steps but need a sponsor. Hahahahahahahahaha!
I'm sure a lot of these admissions are for addiction to prescription drugs. The medical profession is quick to prescribe drugs for almost anything. I have had to refuse sleeping pills, anti depressants, and so on...I didn't need them and doctors were trying to prescribe them to me, so I can imagine the uninformed senior who is given this opportunity by his doctor and thinks it is the best treatment. He is hooked from that point on, and it's a downward spiral. Until the feds crack down on this outrageous prescribing of unnecessary addictive drugs by doctors, things are just going to get worse.
Sooner or later, everyone "grays." Was this a government funded study? Where in the hell do they think the hippies went? They either went to work for the government in three-piece suits or they're still out there "doin their thing."
or both