Prevalence and Incidence of Cocaine abuse
Cocaine abuse Prevalence: Book Excerpts
Death statistics for Cocaine abuse:
The following statistics relate to deaths and Cocaine abuse:
- Deaths rose from 19 in 1995 to 87 in 1999 in the UK (National Statistics, UK Government, 2001)
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Alcohol-related disorder:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Numerous biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors appear to be involved in alcohol addiction. An offspring of one parent with alcohol-related disorder is seven to eight times more likely to become an alcoholic than is a peer without such a parent. Biological factors may include genetic or biochemical abnormalities, nutritional deficiencies, endocrine imbalances, and allergic responses.
Psychological factors may include the urge to drink alcohol to reduce anxiety or symptoms of mental illness; the desire to avoid responsibility in familial, social, and work relationships; and the need to bolster self-esteem.
Sociocultural factors include the availability of alcoholic beverages, group or peer pressure, an excessively stressful lifestyle, and social attitudes that approve of frequent drinking.
More than 15% of American adults have a problem with alcohol use, and about 5% to 10% of male and 3% to 5% of female drinkers are alcohol dependent, accounting for about 12.5 million people. Alcohol-related disorder cuts across all social and economic groups, involves both sexes, and occurs at all stages of the life cycle, beginning as early as elementary school.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Heroin Intoxication:
Heroin Intoxication - epidemiology
(The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult)
- Neonatal:
- Fetal exposure commonly involves polysubstance abuse.
- 60–80% of heroin-exposed infants develop withdrawal—dependent on maternal dosing and length of use.
- Adolescents:
- Use peaked among US adolescents in the 1970s and then declined.
- Use is increasing again because a more pure product allows for smoking or snorting as well as injecting.
- Most use experimentally or intermittently; few become addicted and use daily.
- Use of opioid analgesics has increased dramatically over the last 10 years, and has become more common than heroin use.
- Overdose:
- Up to 1/3 of heroin users experience nonfatal overdose.
- Most occur in the home and with other people present.
- Risk factors include length of injecting history and concurrent use of CNS depressants.
- Deaths:
- Most heroin deaths occur when drug administered IV.
- Most deaths in patients in their late 20s or 30s, with significant drug dependence
- Multiple drug use common in heroin-related death
- Many deaths occur in people with a history of a nonfatal overdose.
Heroin Intoxication - incidence
- Statistically significant increase in new heroin use since 1992
- 141,000 new users in 1995
- Mean age of 1st use in 1995 = 19.3
Heroin Intoxication - prevalence
- Precise estimates of prevalence of use difficult
- ~2.9 million people used at least once
- ~633,000 used in last year
- Prevalence of fetal exposure <1–3.7%
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Source: The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, 2008
About prevalence and incidence statistics:
The term 'prevalence' of Cocaine abuse usually refers to the estimated population
of people who are managing Cocaine abuse at any given time.
The term 'incidence' of Cocaine abuse refers to the annual diagnosis rate,
or the number of new cases of Cocaine abuse diagnosed each year.
Hence, these two statistics types can differ:
a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence,
but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence.
For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.
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