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Illicit Drug Users Not Idle; Report Says 70% Go to Work
Charles Marwick
JAMA. 1999;282:1320-1321.
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Washington—Drug abusers may be working alongside those who deplore the practice; they may sit at the next desk, chat with others at lunch, or share the road going home. The belief that most people who use illicit drugs are unemployed and concentrated in impoverished parts of inner cities is a myth. In 1997, 70% of the 6.3 million persons between the ages of 18 and 49 years who admitted using illicit drugs in the preceding month were full-time employees. This principal finding of the latest National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), will disabuse many of their previous ideas.
"The report confirms what we have long known from anecdotal experience," said Scott King, mayor of Gary, Ind, speaking at a Capitol Hill press conference held to announce the release of the survey. His comment on "Worker . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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