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- From: backpack@access.digex.com (Stuart Reges)
- Subject: Re: Is WOSD being won?
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:05:41 GMT
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- rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:
-
- >The following appeared over in sci.crypt and seems to present statistics
- >considerably different than I have seen over here. Any comments?
- >Any refutations (please)?
- >
- >[various statistics showing progress in the WOD based on 1990 usage]
-
- Bennet's numbers are definitely misleading. 1990 was something of an anomaly.
- Several stats did indicate some progress, but things have since gotten worse.
- I don't have NIDA statistics from 1985 to compare against, so I can't give a
- detailed refutation, although I'm interested enough in it that I'll try to do
- so sometime in the next week. I wanted to buy the latest NIDA books from the
- Government Printing Office, and if they have the 1985 books, I'll buy them as
- well. I seem to recall from a conversation I had with DPF folks that the most
- bogus thing Bennet did was to talk about reduction in the category of most
- casual use. The government asks people if they have used drugs in the last
- year, last month, and last week. His big reductions were in the category of
- people who had used drugs in the last year. There were not similar reductions
- in the other categories. In others words, there was less experimentation, but
- the true drug users were not tapering off significantly. Again, I'll see if I
- can post something more definitive.
-
- In the meantime, I will post 2 recent Washington Post articles in followup
- messages that directly refute several of the statistics you mentioned.
-
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