Drugs and Alcohol
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Drugs and alcohol are major problems in the United States, particularly among the youth of this country. The 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), which is an annual survey of the civilian population of non-institutionalized people in the United States aged 12 years and older, found that in 2003, an estimated 19.5 million Americans, 8.2 percent of the population aged 12 years or more, were currently using illicit drugs, i.e. they had used illicit drugs in the month prior to the survey (1). There were no changes in drug use since 2002. The rate of current marijuana use among youths aged 12 to 17 years was 7.9 percent, and there was a significant decline in lifetime marijuana use among youths, from 20.6 percent in 2002 to 19.6 percent in 2003. There were also decreases in the use of LSD (1.3 to 0.6 percent), Ecstasy (2.2 to 1.3 percent), and methamphetamine (0.9 to 0.7 percent). Marijuana was the most commonly used illicit drug. An estimated 2.3 million people were current cocaine users, 604,000 of them using crack cocaine (1). One million people were hallucinogen users, and there were an estimated 119,000 current heroin users. Overall, there was a drop in the use of hallucinogens (from 4.7 million users down to 3.9 million users), LSD (from 1 million users down to 558,000 users), and Ecstacy (from 3.2 Million users to 2.1 million users) from 2002. As far as alcohol is concerned, 119 million American aged 12 or older were current drinkers of alco
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as: personal-family issues, lack of insurance/Medicaid, ignorance, suspicion, and/or aversion to alcohol and other drug abuse programs (AOD), "hassles" with Medicaid, lack of personal ID, lack of space in the programs, limited access to intake, homelessness, and childcare-custody issues. Also, about 18 percent of these drug and alcohol abusers had no desire for treatment, reported no barriers, or were too deeply involved in their habit to enrol in the programs offered.
Outreach staff saw barriers from their perspective as being: lack of ID, lack of Medicaid, lack of space in the programs, and stakeholder agency bureaucracy (2). Treatment staff cited lack of client readiness, "hassles" posed by welfare reform, the red tape of AOD programs, waiting lists, and near exclusionary preferences for the Medicaid-eligible as barriers keeping addicts from treatment. From the agency managers point of view, the barriers to treatment were client factors, inadequate funding, and lack of appropriate programs, treatment program requirements, and societal stigmatization of addicts. Several remedies were suggested to improve these services. They include: dropping ID and insurance requirements, increased resources, funding transportation to
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