Baby boomers' drug boom


Baby boomers are smoking pot and popping pills at an alarming rate, even as drug abuse among teens is decreasing, according to federal and local health data.

Some 5 percent of Americans in their 50s reported abusing drugs "in the past month" in 2007, compared with just 2.7 percent in 2002, researchers found.


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