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It is correlated not causative.
__________________There are factors, such as education, that correlate to the lack of drug use or to its continuous use. |
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But here's some of the reasons why I question such studies. Higher education often means more income, and with higher income comes access to rehab, being able to hide drug use and abuse, avoidance of getting caught, etc. So I think these factors often can skew such studies. Anecdotally I haven't seen much difference the part education plays except in drug of choice and the means of getting help. So maybe you're right when it comes to drug related deaths. Also anecdotally I've seen prescription drug abuse actually higher in more educated individuals mainly due to access. |
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From USDHHS-SAMHSA, the government agency which tracks prescription drug abuse (these figures are from the first half of the 2000s; complete stats exist through 2009, but mostly in spreadsheet form, not an easy-to-read report like this):
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Strangely though, they don't include income in their differentials. |
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Yolland did you find anywhere where it stated how they found individuals?
Were they people in treatment, people who were arrested in drug charges, people who volunteered that they were abusing prescription drugs? |
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No, it's based on field interviews conducted with 203,670 people in 900 census blocks which were selected to represent national population distribution as accurately as possible. Sampling was random (but there was a deliberate oversampling of youths and young adults, since that's where the problem is most acute). Active-duty military, homeless people not living in shelters, and persons living in institutions (prisons, nursing homes etc.) were not included.
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Thanks, I just glanced it over and couldn't find that...
__________________I think that does skew the numbers though, it would be hard to ever really get an acurate survey like this. Many people, and I would think the educated even moreso would be embarassed to admitting such a problem. |
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