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American girls are using drugs, tobacco, alcohol at increased rate and starting younger.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
WASHINGTON _ Young American women are closing a deadly gender gap with men, turning to illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol at an alarming rate.
Today's daughters are 15 times likelier than their baby boomer mothers to have begun using illegal drugs by age 15, according to a report being released Wednesday by the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University.
``Substance abuse in women is an enormous crisis for our country, and largely one of neglect,'' said Joseph Califano, CASA president and former secretary of health, education and welfare.
The 251-page study ``Substance Abuse and the American Woman,'' conducted during a two-year period and funded by the Bristol Meyers Squibb Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts, finds that adolescent girls are just as likely to have used illegal drugs,…
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