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The baby boomer effect
— patterns of substance abuse among adults ages 55 and over | | Author(s) | David F Duncan, Thomas Nicholson, John B White |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 22, no 3, July-September 2010 |
| Publisher | Routledge, July-September 2010 |
| Pages | pp 237-248 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Drug taking ; Alcoholism ; Middle aged ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Between now and 2030, the number of adults aged 65 and older in the United States will almost double, from around 37 million to more than 70 million, an increase from 12% of the US population to almost 20%. It was long held that, with only a few isolated exceptions, substance abuse simply did not exist in this population. In light of the impact of the baby boom generation, this assumption may no longer be valid. The authors examined admissions of people 55 years and older (n = 918,955) from the Treatment Episode Data Set (1998-2006). Total admissions with a primary drug problem with alcohol have remained relatively stable over this time. Admissions for problems with a primary drug other than alcohol have shown a steady and substantial increase. Clearly, data from the Treatment Episode Data Set indicate a coming wave of older addicts whose primary problem is not alcohol. The authors suspect that this wave is led primarily by the continuing emergence of the baby boomer generation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-101001010 A |
| Classmark | ETD: ETA: SE: 3F: 7T |
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