Someday, kids are going to tell us to shut up – Updated

Aaron Carroll

September 16, 2014

UPDATED – I made some errors, and so these charts are fixed!!!

Here’s past month illicit drug use among adults aged 50-64:

All going up, by the way. Even grandma and grandpa.

Here’s kids and young adults:

Kids are the only group dropping. But when we talk about “rising drug use”, do you think people imagine adults over age 50, or kids? Something to think about.

@aaronecarroll

P.S. Here’s kids marijuana use, for those who are still skeptical:

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

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