Sentences with phrase «addiction rates»

Recent restrictions on prescription drugs have led to a flood of cheap heroin to fill the gap, he says, and current treatment options are inadequate to fight the high addiction rates.

Choonsung Shin, a Korean technology researcher who has examined problematic smartphone usage in both Korea and the U.S., says cultural differences could affect smartphone addiction rates, but he notes that factors such as a person's age, gender and occupation are also likely to play a role.

I look at our world - the unemployment rates, the homeless rates, the drug addiction rates, the degradation we do to our environment, and I don't exactly wish we had millions more people in my generation to add to the problems.

Last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a $ 38 million - a-year program to combat addiction rates.

By comparison, the U.S. may see online addiction rates in urban youth around 5 to 10 percent, say neuroscientists and study co-authors Kai Yuan and Wei Qin of Xidian University in China.

The alarmist prediction that cheap available drugs could lead to an addiction rate of 75 percent of regular users simply ignores the fact that 35 to 40 million Americans are already using some drugs and that only 3 percent become addicts.

Doctors are also writing more prescriptions for pain management, which has led to higher experimentation and addiction rates, according to lead author David Fiellin, M.D., professor of internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine.

«Available estimates peg the addiction rate of attorneys to be roughly twice that of the general population,» said Patrick R. Krill, director of the foundation's legal professionals program in a joint news release announcing the project.