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To: Mannie who wrote (53959)	9/9/2006 12:09:32 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104167

I wish I was hanging with my cousin then. I was going to school (<: But he's equally jealous of me every time he reads about the Free Speech Movement. I have those Pigpen lines on tape somewhere; that's the only way I know him. God bless your generation. I notice my cohort, the war babies, didn't even get a mention, but if we didn't invent the damn stuff, we were the lab rats. Maybe all the 60-65 year olds were too stoned to respond. Can't speak for anybody else, but I ain't gonna become a senior; at least as they define it. I won't grow old. Peter Rat Boomers Using More Drugs, Teens Less but Seniors Just Don't Do It Senior citizens do not drink, smoke or use drugs like young folks By Tucker Sutherland, editor September 8, 2006 – The nation's reporters and editors focused on the increase of drug use by baby boomers and the decrease among young people – both good leads – but for us it is always shocking to see how little drug use there is among senior citizens. Not only to the elderly spurn drugs, they also don't smoke or drink much alcohol. Below are charts and highlights of the latest report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. This initial report from the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), released at the annual observance of National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month Observance, focuses on significant trends in substance abuse and mental health problems since 2002. Current illicit drug use among youth ages 12-17 continues to decline, heralds the report. The rate has been moving downward from 11.6 percent using drugs in the past month in 2002 to 11.2 percent in 2003, 10.6 percent in 2004 and 9.9 percent in 2005. For young adults, ages 18-25, the picture is mixed. While there were no significant changes in overall past month use of any illicit drugs in this age group between 2002 and 2005, cocaine use increased from 2.0 in 2002 to 2.6 percent in 2005. Past-month non-medical use of prescription drugs among young adults increased from 5.4 percent in 2002 to 6.3 percent in 2005, due largely to an increase in the non-medical use of narcotic pain relievers. The rate was 4.1 percent in 2002 and 4.7 percent in 2003, 2004 and 2005. “The news today is there is a fundamental shift in drug use among young people in America,” said Assistant Surgeon General Eric B. Broderick, D.D.S., M.P.H., SAMHSA Acting Deputy Administrator. “We first saw this shift towards healthier decisions when rates of tobacco use among young people began to go down. Now, we see a sustained drop in rates of drug use. We will see if the decline in drinking among 12 to 17 years olds becomes a continued pattern as well.” Baby Boomers The baby boomer generation presents a different story. Among adults aged 50 to 59, the rate of current illicit drug use increased from 2.7 percent to 4.4 percent between 2002 and 2005, reflecting the aging into this age group - the baby boom cohort, the agency says. Senior Citizens, however, are even another story. In the charts below, it is obvious they are not drug, alcohol or tobacco users - at least compared to the younger age groups. Less than one percent of Americans age 65 or older used an illicit drug in the month before the survey. seniorjournal.com