From The Metro:
Fewer young adults with a drug problem are using heroin and crack - but the number of young people needing treatment for cocaine abuse is rising.
Here we go ...
The number of 18 to 24-year-olds seeking treatment for heroin or crack fell by 22 per cent to 9,632 between 2005-6 and 2007-8, official figures show. But the numbers of young adults presenting for treatment for cocaine dependency rose by more than two-thirds to 2,692 over the same period.
Or, as I would put it, "The number of young adults seeking treatment for heroin, crack or cocaine dependency fell by an eighth, or by 1,608* between 2005-06 and 2007-08."
* Maths point - I assumed that "more than two-thirds" means a seventy per cent increase, so I calculated the 2005-06 comparatives as 9,632 ÷ 78% = 12,349; 2,962 ÷ 170% = 1,583; 12,349 + 1,583 = 13,932. The total for 2007-08 is 9,632 + 2,692 = 12,324.
Stormlight
2 hours ago
6 comments:
I wonder who put out the press release with the confusing word-spin?
AC1, you have to ask?
The figures were put out by The National Treatment Agency, which "is a special health authority within the NHS, established by Government in 2001 to improve the availability, capacity and effectiveness of treatment for drug misuse in England."
Do you think the "journalist" just cut'n'pasted it verbatim from the press release?
No analysis, no checking etc?
AC1, I saw a similar article somewhere else, so I guess so.
TBH, your post says more about "journalism" than about Twisted-Stats!
Why is the MSM dying? Because it's not doing its job
My working 19yo neighbour tells me that there is not a great deal of heroin or crack in this part of the world but that cocain is indeed becoming more popular, Just sayin'.
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