Drugs, Alcohol, & Despair: State Rankings

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	Drugs, Alcohol, & Despair: State Rankings

nohobot

3-6-2008 4:47 PM

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drugs, alcohol, tobacco, smoking, depression, psychology, mental health, marijuana, drinking, webmd

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People in Utah are the least likely to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, and smoke marijuana, but they have the highest rate of serious psychological distress. Could correlation indicate causation in this case?

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illicit drug during the previous month (5.7%). Rhode Island had the highest
percentage (11.2%).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20080306/drugs-alcohol-despair-state-rankings?src=RSS_PUBLIC"><P>
      <A href="http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/substance-abuse">Marijuana</A> use was reported by
10.4% of participants in 2005-2006. <SPAN>Vermont had the highest rate of marijuana
use in the past month (9.7%). Utah had the lowest rate (4.3%).</SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20080306/drugs-alcohol-despair-state-rankings?src=RSS_PUBLIC"><P>Utah residents were the least likely to report drinking alcohol in the past
month (32.4%). That's nearly half of Wisconsin's rate (63.1%).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20080306/drugs-alcohol-despair-state-rankings?src=RSS_PUBLIC"><P>Underage drinking among people aged 12-20 was rarest in Utah (21.5%) and
most common in Vermont (38.3%).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20080306/drugs-alcohol-despair-state-rankings?src=RSS_PUBLIC"><P>
      <SPAN>Among youths, 10.6% reported <A href="http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/default.htm">smoking</A> cigarettes in the
previous month, down from 11.3% in 2004-2005.</SPAN>
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