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Topical Currents
1:00 pm
Thu February 6, 2014

Facing Our Addiction to Fast and Faster

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Speed: Facing Our Addiction to Fast and Faster
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Topical Currents
1:00 pm
Wed June 26, 2013

A Challenge to What We Know About Drugs & Society

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Dr. Carl Hart
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HIGH PRICE: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.
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06/26/13 - Wednesday's Topical Currents is with Columbia University neuroscientist Dr. Carl Hart. A native Miamian, Hart has written  HIGH PRICE:  A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society. After 22 years of research, he challenges the way we think about poverty, race and addiction. That’s Topical Currents Wednesday at 1pm on WLRN-HD1 rebroadcast at 7pm on WLRN-HD2 and audio on-demand after the live program.   
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Baby Boomer Drug Addiction
6:00 am
Tue April 2, 2013

Have You Talked To Your Parents About Drugs? The Startling Rise Of Baby Boomer Drug Abuse

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More baby boomers are seeking treatment for addiction to prescription drugs.
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While emergency room visits related to cocaine use are down among other groups, these visits are up among baby boomers.
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Treatment for addiction to sedatives such as Ambien has tripled since 2001.
Credit Jim Hall, epidemiologist / Center for Applied Research on Substance Use and Health Disparities at Nova Southeastern University
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Baby boomers have become addicted to drugs at an alarming rate. 

The most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health,  released in 2012, found illicit drug use among people between the ages of 55 and 59 had increased more than any other group.

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