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Smarter Kids are Smart Enough to avoid Alcohol and Drugs


                           Drug abuse is a serious public health problem that affects almost every community and family. Each year drug abuse causes millions of serious illnesses or injuries among Americans. Abused drugs include:

  • Amphetamines
  • Anabolic steroids
  • Club drugs
  • Cocaine
  • Heroin
  • Inhalants
  • Marijuana
  • Prescription drugs
Drug abuse also plays a role in many major social problems, such as drugged, driving, violence, stress, and child abuse. Drug abuse can lead to homelessness, crime, and missed work or problems with keeping a job. It harms unborn babies and destroys families. There are different types of treatment for drug abuse. But he best is to prevent drug abuse in the first place. Social drinking in many countries and non-problematic is more frequent and common among people with higher education, The researchers followed 3000 healthy identical or fraternal twins in Finland, focusing on the group who had significant difference in verbal development as children and who also turned out to have varied drinking behavior as adults.  The research is part of an emerging but counter intuitive body of work that suggests kids who develop language and intellectual skills earlier are more likely to drink and take other drugs than their less intelligent peers. British researchers found that women who were in the top third of the IQ range when tested in elementary school were more than twice as likely as those scoring were more than twice as likely as those scoring in the bottom third to have used marijuana or cocaine by age 30, for men, the top ranked boys were almost 50% more likely to have taken amphetamine and 65% more likely to have used ecstasy by adulthood. Intelligence can serve as a vehicle for moderation when ti comes to alcohol or drug use, the more educated people are the more they internalize and appreciate the dangers and risks of overindulging. The higher education that's correlated with greater intellect also puts more at stake for those who indulge in alcohol or drug abuse.
 
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