Drug Use Across The Generations

[thujone]

Since the 1970s, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) has queried a representative sample of U.S. households on their drinking, smoking, and illicit drug habits. This has revealed a decades-long picture of how many people abuse a variety of different substances. We’ve analyzed this data and separated them by age to show trends in use of 10 different classes of substances throughout four generations of Americans: the Depression-era Lucky Few (born 1923–1942), the Baby Boomers (1943–1962), Generation X (1963–1982), and Millennials (1983–2002). In examining the life course of each of these generations, we can see which proportion of, and at which ages, each reported using a given substance within the past year.

Spoiler: Graphs

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[Jabberwocky]

Now it would be interesting to see them all on the same graph with a common Y axis to get a feeling for them compared substance class by substance class.

 

[starting_over]

If there's 1 thing I learned while working in hotels and restaurants... old people know how to party

 

[Intense]

And yet baby boomers make up the majority of the house and senate




The painkillers one is kind of silly, there should have just been an opiates category. Most of the painkillers today weren't around back then etc..