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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Mid-lifers most likely to have injected drugs

More evidence that the most serious drug problems are among middle-aged people:
Injection drug use is becoming less common among young people in the U.S., especially blacks, a new analysis of national data shows.

In fact, middle-aged men and women are more likely to have ever injected drugs than younger people -- or older people, for that matter...

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