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Jeremy Laurance Author Biography
Thursday 05 April 2012
With reader comments
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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...e-rave-middleage-drug-use-rising-7619406.html
And the Daily Mail...
Children of the Sixties refusing to quit drugs.: Use by the over-50s has increased tenfold in 20 years
By Sophie Borland
PUBLISHED: 00:48, 5 April 2012 | UPDATED: 01:52, 5 April 2012
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...0s-increased-tenfold-years.html#ixzz1r8tUbIek
Jeremy Laurance Author Biography
Thursday 05 April 2012
With reader comments
Illicit drug use among over-50s has risen sharply as the greying hippie generation ages
They were the flower children of the Sixties who turned on, tuned in and dropped out. Four decades on, older but not necessarily wiser, they are still getting stoned on a regular basis.
Illicit drug use among the over-50s has risen tenfold since the mid-Nineties as the hippie generation has become the bus pass generation. Researchers say the growth of drug use among the middle aged and elderly has been long suspected but never investigated and its effects on the ageing brain are unknown.
Almost one in 10 Londoners in their sixth decade is regularly puffing on a joint, snorting a line of cocaine or dropping a tab of acid, according to the findings based on two household surveys of almost 4,000 people. The commonest drug used was cannabis but there were clear differences between those over and under the age of 65, and between London and the rest of the country.
In inner London 9 per cent of those aged 50 to 64 reported using cannabis in the past 12 months compared with 1.8 per cent elsewhere. Among the over-65s, usage rates were 1.1 per cent in London and 0.4 per cent elsewhere in England.
More...
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...e-rave-middleage-drug-use-rising-7619406.html
And the Daily Mail...
Children of the Sixties refusing to quit drugs.: Use by the over-50s has increased tenfold in 20 years
By Sophie Borland
PUBLISHED: 00:48, 5 April 2012 | UPDATED: 01:52, 5 April 2012
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...0s-increased-tenfold-years.html#ixzz1r8tUbIek