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The A8-7600 is part of AMD's brand new range of APUs, codenamed 'Kaveri'. As the successor to last year's Richland APUs, Kaveri includes new CPU cores based on AMD's 'Steamroller' architecture, plus a Radeon R7 series GPU integrated onto the die, four x86-64 cores clocked as high as 3.7 GHz, pushing up to 4 GHz as part of the APU's Turbo mode.
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AMD really is focused on gaming performance with Kaveri and believes this is where its latest APUs have a serious advantage over the competition. The company's latest processors are being pushed as budget solutions for modern 1080p gaming, though on paper the Radeon R7 doesn't look quite up to the task...
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By eTeknix on February 25, 2014
If you follow our website and the technology industry more broadly then you may have heard a lot about Kaveri since it was officially launched on January 14th 2014. Kaveri is the codename for AMD's fourth generation of desktop APU (Accelerated...
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By SilentPC Review on February 19, 2014
Kaveri is another incremental improvement to AMD's mainstream desktop lineup. Efficiency is the watchword, both in terms of CPU clock cycles and power consumption. The A8-7600, despite having a modest clock speed of 3.1 or 3.3 GHz (depend on the TDP...
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By tbreak.ae on February 04, 2014
As the benchmarks have shown, AMD are still way off when it comes to CPU specific tasks. However, Kaveri was never really meant to compete with Intel's i5 or i7 processors and was aimed more at the casual gamer. In terms of gaming performance,...
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The new AMD A8-7600 offers best-in-class GPU performance and much-improved CPU performance in the 45W power envelope. Future support for HSA applications and the Mantle graphics API should further improve the chip's performance.
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By Hexus on January 17, 2014
Kaveri ultimately paves the way for small, cheap computers that make fewer concessions than ever before, though, on a cautionary note, be aware it will be a while before HSA-optimised programs and the much-vaunted Mantle API add the expected lustre to AMD's newest family of APUs.
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By Tom's Hardware UK on January 16, 2014
We've spent the days following CES benchmarking two of AMD's new Kaveri-based APUs. Do the Steamroller x86 architecture, GCN graphics design, and HSA-oriented features impress, or do they come up short against Intel's value-oriented...
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By HotHardware on January 14, 2014
The AMD A8-7600 APU's performance is somewhat of a mixed bag. Please keep in mind, however, that this APU is actually the low-end model in AMD's initial Kaveri-based APU line-up. The A8-7600's CPU cores are clocked lower than other model
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By Guru of 3D on January 14, 2014
Alright lets wrap things up. I profoundly like the new Kaveri architecture, it is the first true native heterogeneous APU architecture that will set the path into the future. With it's well over 2 Billion transistors it isn't even a cheap chip...
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By PCPer on January 14, 2014
At idle, and at the same 45 watt specification, the Kaveri APU draws the same amount of power as the two Richland parts. The Core i3-4330, though obviously on a very different platform, is a few watts under that.Our first load power consumption test c...
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A four-year project undertaken by some units in 1,100 U.S. hospitals has reduced central line-associated bloodstream infections by 40%, more than 2,000 infections, saving more than 500 lives and avoiding more than $34 million in healthcare costs.
That was the message Monday from Johns Hopkins infection control guru Peter Pronovost, MD, who developed CUSP, the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program, a culture change and teamwork model that uses "the science of safety" to achieve hospital results.
Pronovost sat beside American Hospital Association president and CEO Richard Umbdenstock, and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality director Carolyn Clancy at a briefing to announce the good news.
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For those of you going through difficult times, I hope this sheds new light on what it means to break down, and how to reflect on the times during which we feel at our worst and our most vulnerable....
I have been thinking a lot lately about what it means to "break down" or even just to "break". The word in our language has such negative connotation. People break down, broken bones, items break, even the term break up really means that a heart is breaking. Why is it that in our oddly contrived world of emotions, words, and their interrelationships that we place such negative attachments to a beautiful word?
When we look and reflect on the world that exists outside of our messy brains, breaking is not such a bad thing. Breaking doesn't always mean losing function; it can mean changing function, changing form; often times, into something beautiful, fantastic, more-so than it was before.
Glass for example, shatters when it hits the ground; breaks into hundreds if not thousands of pieces. Have you ever stopped and stared for a moment at those shards of glass? They really are spectacular in their chemistry, their structure, their ability to reflect light on so many surfaces ONLY occurs when it is "broken". So is the glass really broken, or has it just changed form, changed shape?
I think about this with emotional breakdowns. When they happen, I feel completely shattered, broken, but in this MONSTROUSLY ugly, hideous, embarrassing, shameful, way that is so unlike me. It's almost an out of body experience for me, just to cry. I look at myself and say "this isn't you…you don't break". It looks ugly, out of place, and just wrong. So I began to contemplate this.
I think passion is an amazing and beautiful thing, and I am such a passionate person about so many things: my dogs, my horses, my education, science, medicine, and my friends, all of whom I would literally take a bullet for. I am fiercely loyal in all relationships, both friendships and romantic ones. What is so different about these types of passion, and the pain I feel when I breakdown? Is that just not passion in a different form?
I am really going to try viewing these moments where I feel least like myself, where I feel at my ugliest and most undesirable, and see if I can view it is an expression of passion, which even in a type of emotional breakdown, can by my new definition, never be bad. I need to view these "breakdowns" as ways to build back up. Use the passion, anger, sadness, whatever it is I'm feeling, and better myself. Change form. Become more beautiful.
There's a song called "Let Go" by Frou Frou that is amazing.
"So let go, jump in, oh well, what are you waiting for? It's all right, cause there's beauty in the breakdown. Just get in, it's so amazing here, there's beauty in the breakdown. It gains the more it gives, and then it rises with the fall. So hand me that remote, can't you see that all that stuff's a sideshow? Such boundless pleasure we've no time for later, now you can't await your own arrival, you've 20 seconds to comply. So let go, jump in, what are you waiting for? It's all right, cause there's beauty in the breakdown"
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On Friday, August 10, 2012, the Lancaster Barnstormers traveled to play the Sugar Land Skeeters in the first game of a six game series. The Barnstormers were looking to keep up what had been a dominating performance so far this season and the Skeeters were looking to catch up to the Barnstormers. The Barnstormers are currently at the top of the Freedom Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. The team already won the first half of the season to get an automatic trip to the playoffs. The Skeeters are currently in second place in the Freedom Division. As a new team, the Skeeters have been playing well this season.
In the first game of the series, the two teams played in a relatively high scoring and close game. The Barnstormers got on the board first in the first inning. The run was matched and more in the third inning when the Skeeters went up three runs to take the lead by a score of 3-1. The Barnstormers answered back in the fourth by posting five runs to take back the lead by a score of 6-3. The Barnstormer added to the lead in the seventh by adding two more runs. The Skeeters added a run in the eighth to make the score 8-4. After the Barnstormers added one more in the ninth, the Skeeters tried for a comeback but managed to only get three runs. The Barnstormers took the game by a score of 9-7.
The second game, played on Saturday, August 11, was a great one. The Barnstormers took a substantial lead in the first inning by scoring four unanswered runs. The team added on more in the second. During the top of the third inning, the Barnstormers added one more run to make the score 7-0. This time, however, the Skeeters answered by scoring five runs during the bottom of the inning. By the end of the third, the score was 7-5. The Barnstormers would not let the Skeeters get closer than that, however and scored twice more, once in the fifth and once in the eighth. The final score was 9-5.
In the third game of the series, which was played on Sunday, August 12, the Barnstormers got a commanding lead and the Skeeters never seemed to show up. Though the first inning was scoreless, the Barnstormers first took the lead in the second inning and never looked back. After scoring an incredible six unanswered runs in the fifth inning, there was no question as to which team would win. The Barnstormers took the victory by a score of 9-0.
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Details and specifics of the forthcoming International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on the Iranian nuclear program continued to leak out over the weekend, with the formal report expected later this week. The growing rhetoric about Iran—including talk from certain Israeli and American corners about an air campaign against Iran—had already begun to intensify in anticipation of the report, which will say more explicitly than previous IAEA assessments that Iran is indeed actively pursuing a nuclear weaponization program.
"The counterexamples are countries—specifically, North Korea and Iran—that already have a compelling, non-nuclear deterrent."
There is a cyclical nature to this rhetoric, and the correlation with the most harsh IAEA report on Iran to date is hard to get past. But while the latest IAEA report is certainly set to contain new, specific information about Iran's program, there has been little serious doubt in recent years that Iran has continued to actively pursue nuclear weapons. The impending IAEA report's overarching tenor is not news to anyone—though it provides plenty of opportunity to talk about Iran's program, point fingers at Tehran and once again raise the specter of war—something even those mostly looking to mount pressure for more aggressive sanctions may do.
Nuclear weaponization programs by their nature require large, fixed infrastructure that must be connected to significant sources of power. The development of such programs—particularly in countries operating without access to key, export-controlled materiel—demands considerable investment over many years. Any serious movement down this path is vulnerable to detection, which is likely to lead to an attack in short order as Iraq found out in 1981 and Syria found out in 2007. Essentially, if a country desires a nuclear deterrent because it lacks any deterrent at all, then it is unlikely to be allowed the uninterrupted space and time to develop one.
The counterexamples are countries—specifically, North Korea and Iran—that already have a compelling, non-nuclear deterrent. That existent, non-nuclear deterrent discourages pre-emptive attacks against the country while its nuclear development efforts are in their most vulnerable stages. In the case of North Korea, Pyongyang has demonstrated a very sophisticated ability to escalate and de-escalate crises year after year, keeping itself at the center of the international agenda but not inviting physical attack. One element of this is Pyongyang's deliberate cultivation of a perception of unpredictability—the idea the North Korean dictator may not behave rationally—which convinces international actors to give the regime a wide berth. The other is continued ambiguity.
North Korea has made a career out of crossing international "red lines" and has helped soften the blow of crossing those lines by doing so ambiguously, particularly with nuclear tests that are not overtly, demonstrably successful. Yet North Korea has a large but unknown number of conventional artillery and artillery rocket batteries within range of Seoul. North Korea's real "nuclear" option is opening fire with those batteries before they can possibly all be destroyed. And that is what ultimately keeps the international response to North Korea's nuclear program in check: the unwillingness to trade a difficult and uncertain military attempt to address a crude, nascent nuclear program in exchange for Seoul.
Tehran has three key deterrents. First, for years, the American troop presence in Iraq, particularly after post-surge quelling of violence, remained vulnerable to Iranian-instigated attack by Tehran's proxies and with weapons provided by Tehran (something Iran demonstrated quite unambiguously that it had the capacity to do in the form of the explosively formed penetrator, a particularly deadly form of improvised explosive device). That dynamic will remain, after American troops depart, in the form of American diplomats and contractors, who will be protected by a small army of private security contractors. Second, Iran's ballistic missile arsenal can target both American and Israeli targets across the region - and many missiles will likely be loosed before all their mobile launchers can be pinpointed and destroyed.
But the third deterrent is the critical factor. Iran has for decades cultivated the ability to essentially conduct guerrilla warfare in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. This is Iran's real "nuclear" option. There are inherent vulnerabilities in such tight waters, in which Iran can bring to bear not just naval mines, but shore-based anti-ship missiles and small boat swarms. This threat might be manageable tactically (particularly if a massive U.S.-led air campaign surprised Iran), but even in the best-case scenario, no one can manage the markets' reaction to even the hint of disruption to 40 percent of the world's sea-borne crude.
This is the heart of the problem. Whether there are six key nuclear sites in Iran or 60 (and Iran presents a significant intelligence challenge in this regard), any attacker has to neutralize not just the nuclear targets and associated air defenses, but Iran's dispersed and camouflaged military capabilities all along the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz. U.S. participation was decisive in a far less sophisticated air campaign against Libya. In an Iran scenario where so much must be hit so quickly, the United States is the only country capable of even attempting to bring the necessary military strike capacity against Iran.
But even the optimistic scenario must anticipate the potential for an outcome reminiscent of the 1980s Tanker Wars. While the United States and Europe are focused on the global economic crisis (and particularly the euro crisis in Europe), they will want to avoid at all costs video of burning oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, which could panic already skittish markets. As long as that is the case, the prospect of a military strike on Iran is dim. And in any event, surprise is a key element for a successful strike on Iran. The moment Iran should feel the most secure is when Israeli rhetoric about war is at its peak.
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According to Statistics Canada, migration flows to Quebec were low between 1851 and 1901, with an annual increase rate of 1.3%. The migration flow increased to 3% from 1901 up until 1921 then decreased again between 1921 and 1971. In this last phase, the increase rate was the lowest recorded at a little more than 1%, lower than the 1851 1.3%.
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A small-town shopkeeper's folksy Facebook greeting to newly-arrived Syrian refugees kicked off a big-time media frenzy that continues to reverberate, making Bo Oskarsson of Kaxås our pick for Swede of the Week.
Oskarsson's unexpected ascent to nationwide recognition began with a humble posting on the Facebook page of the Ica grocery store he runs in Kaxås, a small village in Offerdal, nestled among the hills and forests of the northwestern Swedish county of Jämtland.
"We welcome all those newly arrived from Syria and we hope that you'll enjoy beautiful Offerdal," read the post, published on January 18th.
According to Oskarsson, three families from Syria had recently moved to Kaxås, marking the first time the village had ever had refugees among its roughly 150 inhabitants.
The new arrivals are part of an influx of 17 Syrian families moving to Krokom, the municipality of nearly 14,500 residents where Kaxås is located.
Last week, Oskarsson met some of the newly arrived Syrian refugees in his Ica shop and felt compelled to do his part to make them feel welcome in their new home.
It didn't take long before the Facebook greeting went gangbusters on social media, garnering well over 2,000 likes and 1,000 shares on Facebook and spawning its own hashtag on Twitter, #ICAKaxås, which for a time was one of Sweden's top-trending hashtags.
"I thought we should welcome them to Kaxås. I arranged a picture with the Syrian flag in the background and a short text," Oskarsson told the local Östersunds Posten (OP) newspaper.
"I put it out on Facebook and it didn't take long for the comments to explode."
Oskarsson explained that he planned to add halal meat to the selection of foods available at his shop, as well as sweet potatoes and tahini, a paste made from ground sesame seeds common in Middle Eastern cuisine.
By Tuesday, Oskarsson had been featured in several Swedish newspapers, prompting comments from celebrities and commentators mystified over the fact that more Swedes seemed to be talking about a local grocery store than news that Swedish Equality Minister Nyamko Sabuni was stepping down.
"Every now and again you catch a glimpse of a hero. First time I've been proud to have an Ica-card," tweeted author and comedian Jonas Gardell along with a link to the story.
While most of the attention was positive, Oskarsson also found himself the target of criticism and threats from those critical of Swedish refugee policies.
"Someone wrote that I should be hung from a lamp post," he told the Aftonbladet newspaper.
After more and more racist comments began to appear on the shop's Facebook page, Oskarsson opted to remove the post.
But supporters of Oskarsson rallied their forces later in the week, with 22-year-old Stockholm resident Linnea Swedenmark organizing an online petition allowing people to send greetings to the shop owner.
Swedenmark told Aftonbladet she was blown away by the response.
"I hoped that maybe 50 would write, but now nearly 5,000 have written personal greetings," she said on Thursday.
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She said she hopes Osckarsson is "surprised and moved" by the responses, which she plans to collate and pass along at the weekend.
Politicians have also expressed their support for Oskarsson, with Green Party leader Gustav Fridolin posting a picture on his Facebook page of him holding a sign, written in Swedish and Arabic, inspired by the shopkeeper's message.
"We welcome all those newly arrived from Syria and we hope that you'll enjoy beautiful Sweden," the sign read.
When reached by The Local, Oskarsson admitted the threatening comments were "unfortunate and unsettling", but remained upbeat about his efforts.
"It's been unbelievable. It's funny to see how things evolve on social media," he said.
He explained that he and his staff have received mostly positive feedback over his efforts to make some of Kaxås's newest residents feel welcome.
Oskarsson sees the refugees as a needed boost for the area's dwindling population, but remains baffled that his Facebook experiment has engaged people across the country.
"We only created the page to make it easier to publicize offers to our regular customers," he said before hastily drawing the conversation to a close.
"I've been doing interviews for four days and need to get back to work."
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The Reds will be near/or at the .500 mark at the All Star break. Marty will begin his campaingn for Dusty as Manager Of The Year. (the rest of the local media will follow suite).
There will come a time during the season this club looses three or four games in a row. While the pitching staff gives up double digits in runs scored, Marty and Jeff will lay the blame at the feet of the teams batting average with runners in scoreing position. (the rest of the local media will follow suite).
We all know that errors are part of the game, this club will not go through the season without making errors. Marty and the local media will nail Edwin and Dunn to the cross for committing any such miscue.
Jeff Brantley will tell us whenever David Wheathers gives up a basehit on an 0-2 pitch that he's going right at the hitter and challenging him by throwing strikes. The Cowboy will then tell us whenever Belisle or Coffey give up a basehit on an 0-2 pitch that they choke and lack mental toughness.
Most of us will cling to every word of information we can get from the radio brodcast and local media because we are Reds Fans. Sure we will moan and groan but we will be right back here next year and the year after.
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Edgar Watson Howe was born in 1853 in Treaty, Indiana, where his father, Henry Howe, farmed and preached. In 1856, the family moved to Fairview, in Harrison County, Missouri. During the Civil War, Henry Howe, who was an abolitionist, organized Union Army volunteers. In 1863, wounded in battle and unable to farm, he moved the family to Bethany, Missouri, where he took over publishing the Weekly Union newspaper, renaming it Union of States. Henry Howe temporarily deserted his family in 1865.
E. W. Howe worked for a number of newspapers. His brother James got him a job at the North Missourian in Gallatin. Later, Howe moved to the DeKalb County Register, then the Saint Joseph Herald. He returned to Bethany when his mother died in December, 1868. His father, who had returned by that time, took the family to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where E. W. Howe wrote for the Nonpareil. From there, Howe moved to Omaha, Nebraska, to write for the Republican, and there he met William Dorsey, with whom he traveled through Wyoming and Utah. In Salt Lake City, they worked for Brigham Young's newspaper. Eventually, Howe went to Falls City, Nebraska, to write for the Nemaha Valley Journal. In 1873, he married Clara Frank, with whom he had four sons. The same year, Howe and Dorsey went to Denver, Colorado, to write for the Rocky Mountain News. Later that year, they bought the Golden, Colorado...
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You may also be thinking that if they don't have a breath test or blood-alcohol test results to use in court, they will have no evidence that you are intoxicated, so they can never get a conviction. All you have to do is stick to your story that you only had a couple.
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You may not have noticed, the last time you applied to renew your driver's license, but you signed an agreement in which you promised to the implied consent laws of your state. It was there, in the fine print.
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Typically, most state implied consent laws include:
- Carrying a driver's license and proof of insurance and producing them when asked by law enforcement.
- Consenting to blood, urine and/or breath tests to determine your blood-alcohol content if asked.
- Performing field sobriety tests when requested.
You Can Still Refuse
Regardless of what the implied consent laws are in your particular state, you are subject to those in the state in which you are driving.Even though you agreed to abide by these conditions when you applied for a driver's license, you can still refuse to take the sobriety tests, but in every state, refusing to submit to such testing is itself a violation which carries its own penalties, regardless of whether your are convicted of drunk driving or not.
It's the job of our law enforcement officers to keep the roads safe for everyone. If the officer believes that you are intoxicated and a danger to yourself and the public, he can arrest you just because you refused to take the tests.
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In some states, the officer can immediately confiscate your driver's license as an administrative, not criminal action, because you broke your written promise to submit to such testing when you applied for that license.You may be thinking that is a violation of your right against double jeopardy - being punished for the same crime twice. But in most states, taking away your driving privileges has been set up as an administrative function of the department of motor vehicles and not a function of the criminal court.
After all, the DMV granted you those driving privileges, it can take them away. If you refuse the officer's request for sobriety testing, your license can be immediately suspended from six months to a year, depending on the laws of the state in which you are arrested. You may also have to pay fees and penalties before your license can be returned.
Increased Fines and Penalties
Again, you may be thinking that you can live with the license suspension and other penalties involved in refusing to be tested, but you need to avoid a DUI conviction at all costs, so refusing to take the test will eliminate any evidence against you in a court of law.That's not exactly correct, either. Courts will convict drivers of driving under the influence based on the officer's observations both prior to pulling you over and during the arrest. His statements that he smelled alcohol, that you were slurring your words or unsteady on your feet can all be considered evidence.
And don't forget that most police cruisers today are equipped with dash cams. Many a DUI attorney has had to back off trying to negotiate a plea deal after seeing the video of their client during the arrest.
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In the crackdown on drunk driving, some states have now developed "No Refusal" strategies, in which they can obtain immediate search warrants to obtain blood samples from drivers who refuse to take breathalyzer tests.During targeted periods, usually around holiday weekends, judges remain on-call to issue search warrants on the spot, to streamline the due process procedures. The result has been more guilty pleas and fewer DUI trials.
The Refusal Itself Is Evidence
In some jurisdictions, the fact that you refused to take the requested tests is itself evidence of your guilt. Your refusal to submit to blood-alcohol concentration testing is seen in some states as an admission of guilt that can be used against you at trial.In all states, if you refuse to be tested, the penalties will be more severe if you are eventually convicted than they would have been if you had submitted to the tests in the first place.
The bottom line is, refusing the take the sobriety tests is going to cost you more in the long run - larger fines and fees, longer license suspension and possibly longer jail time if it's not your first offense.
If you are stopped, go ahead and take the tests. Who knows? If you only had a couple, you might pass.


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Prevalence of Substance Use Among Racial & Ethnic Subgroups in the U.S. |
Each NHSDA interview takes about one hour to complete and incorporates procedures designed to maximize honest reporting of substance use. Respondents aged 12 to 17 are allowed to participate in the survey only after the interviewer has received parental permission. In each of the 1991, 1992, and 1993 surveys, more than 40 percent of the adolescent interviews were conducted in complete privacy, with only the interviewer and respondent present, while less than 20 percent were conducted with at least one other person constantly present. (For details, see SAMHSA, 1993, Table B.10; SAMHSA, 1995b, Table B.10; and SAMHSA, 1995c, Table B.10.) Self-administered answer sheets are used by respondents for all alcohol and illicit drug use questions, so that responses are not revealed to interviewers or to any other persons who may have been present at the interview. [ Exceptions to the use of self-administered answer sheets are the questions about tobacco use. In 1991-1993, these questions were interviewer-administered. This procedure was revised in the 1994 NHSDA so that youths now respond using self-administered answer sheets. Results indicate that estimates of youth tobacco prevalence prior to 1994, such as those in this report, are substantial underestimates.] Respondents are given a guarantee of confidentiality and told that only persons connected with the research will ever see their answers. After the questionnaire is completed, the answer sheets are placed in an envelope that is then sealed and mailed back to the data collection contractor with no name or address information included.
The analyses in this report are based on NHSDA variables that are derived from questionnaire items on substances used in the past year and problems associated with use. The following NHSDA questionnaire items, called "recency" items, were used to determine past-year drug use:
1) Cigarettes: "When was the most recent time you smoked a cigarette?"
2) Alcohol: "When was the most recent time you had an alcoholic drink, that is, beer, wine, or liquor or a mixed alcoholic drink?"
3) Marijuana: "When was the most recent time you used marijuana or hash?"
4) Cocaine: "When was the most recent time you used cocaine, in any form?"
5) Illicit drugs other than marijuana or cocaine: "When was the most recent time you used [name of drug]?"
Respondents who reported that their most recent use of the specified substance occurred within the twelve-month period preceding the interview were classified as having used the substance during the past year. The recency question varies depending on the type of substance. For example, when asking about sedatives, tranquilizers, stimulants, and analgesics, the question limits use to "nonmedical use." These forms of drug use make up the illicit drugs along with marijuana, cocaine (including crack), inhalants, hallucinogens, and heroin. In other words, any use of any of these drugs in the past year is identified as use of illicit drugs.
To measure heavy past-month alcohol use, we used responses to the following question:
6) Heavy past-month alcohol use: "On about how many days did you have five or more drinks of beer, wine, or liquor on the same occasion during the past 30 days?"
Individuals who responded five or more days were classified as heavy past-month alcohol users.
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7) Heavy past-month cigarette use: "How many cigarettes have you smoked per day, on the average, during the past 30 days?"
Individuals who responded "about a pack a day (16-25 cigarettes)" or more than a pack a day were classified as heavy past-month cigarette smokers.
We also want to identify patterns of problem substance use. Therefore, two kinds of general indicators of problem use were developed, based on responses to questions about drug problems: a measure of dependence on alcohol and a measure of need for illicit drug abuse treatment. First, each type of substance use identified above has a corresponding dependence indicator that is created from respondents' self-reports of behavioral consequences and dependence symptoms they may have experienced as a result of using the substance during the twelve months preceding the interview. Respondents were asked to identify specific substances that caused them to experience each of seven consequences/symptoms during the year preceding the interview. (The questions were based on questionnaire items and diagnostic criteria presented in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition [DSM-III-R; American Psychiatric Association, 1987].) The seven consequences/symptoms were: 1) feeling depressed or losing interest, 2) getting involved in arguments or fights, 3) feeling alone or isolated, 4) feeling nervous or anxious, 5) developing health problems, 6) experiencing difficulty in thinking clearly, and 7) feeling irritable or upset. For each substance, we used the respondents' reports of these seven consequences/symptoms, together with their reports of the most recent time the substance was used, and of their experiences of "trying to cut down" and using more of the substance "to get the same effect," to define five "criteria" of dependence.
A. The substance caused one or more of the seven consequences/symptoms, and the substance was last used during the past month.
B. The substance caused the respondent to get less work done during the past year, and the respondent last used the substance during the past year.
C. The respondent was unable to reduce his or her use of the substance ("cut down") during the past year.
D. The respondent needed more of the substance to get the same effect during the past year.
E. The respondent felt sick when he or she tried to cut down during the past year.
We classified respondents as "dependent on alcohol" during the past year if two or more of the five criteria of dependence were satisfied for alcohol.
Second, following Epstein and Gfroerer (1996), we constructed a measure of the need for illicit drug abuse treatment. A respondent was classified as in need of illicit drug abuse treatment if he or she 1) was dependent on an illicit drug during the past year, 2) reported injection substance use or heroin use during the past year, 3) used sedatives, stimulants, tranquilizers, analgesics nonmedically, inhalants, hallucinogens, or cocaine weekly during the past year, or 4) received treatment for illicit drug use during the past year.
Table 2.1 presents the estimated number and percentage of total persons, and males and females aged 12 and older, who were classified as positive according to this measure. This information is presented for each of the nine measures of substance use, alcohol dependence, or need for treatment, which are defined in this section and analyzed in Chapters 3, 4, and 5. For example, we estimate that there were about 63.4 million persons who used cigarettes in the year preceding the survey, about 31 percent of the NHSDA target population aged 12 and older. Of the 63.4 million past-year cigarette users, 33.1 million were male, accounting for about 34% of the male population aged 12 and older, and 30.3 million were female, accounting for about 28% of the female population aged 12 and older. Standard errors for Table 2.1, and subsequent tables in this report, are presented in the Appendix.
Several studies have investigated the associations between race/ethnicity and substance use among adolescents and among adults. As mentioned above, the principal advantage of this study is a much larger sample size than previous studies, approximately 87,000 respondents aged 12 and older in the combined 1991-93 NHSDAs, including more than 22,000 adolescent respondents aged 12 to 17, more than 21,000 young adult respondents aged 18 to 25, and more than 44,000 adult respondents aged 26 and older. The large sample size makes possible 1) a more refined approach to measuring race/ethnicity, and 2) more extensive breakdowns by demographic and other social factors in analyzing the associations between race/ethnicity and substance use.
The racial/ethnic classification used in this report is based on responses to three interviewer-administered questions:
1) "Are you of Hispanic or Spanish origin or descent?"
2) (If yes to preceding question) "Which of these Hispanic-origin groups best describes you?"
Some other group (SPECIFY) ______________________
3) Which of the groups on this card best describes you? Just give me the number.
INDIAN (American), ALEUT, ESKIMO ____ 03
ASIAN OR PACIFIC ISLANDER (Including Asian Indian) ___ 04
OTHER (Specify) ______________________ 05
As stipulated in Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, issued by the Office of Management and Budget (U.S. Department of Commerce, 1978), persons of Hispanic origin (first and second questions) may be of any race (third question). Both in the eleven-category racial/ethnic classification used in Chapters 3 and 4 and in the seven-category racial/ethnic classification used in Chapter 5, an individual's Hispanic origin takes precedence over any racial identification. For example, an individual who was identified as "Hispanic-Mexican" based on the first two questions and as "Indian (American), Aleut, Eskimo" based on the third question was classified as "Hispanic-Mexican" rather than as "Indian (American), Aleut, Eskimo." Similarly, the classifications "black" and "white" as used in this report refer to non-Hispanic blacks and to non-Hispanic whites, respectively.
Write-in responses to the second question, "some other group (SPECIFY)," were used to extend our list of Hispanic-origin groups from four to seven, including "Hispanic-Caribbean" (other than Puerto Rico and Cuban), "Hispanic-Central American" (other than Mexico), "Hispanic-South American," and "Hispanic-Other" (other than Caribbean, Central American, Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and South American).
Individuals who gave write-in responses to the third question, "OTHER (Specify)," and who were not Hispanic were usually recoded to one of the four explicit non-Hispanic racial categoriesNative American, Asian/Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic black, and non-Hispanic white. For example, individuals who reported that they were "African American" were recoded as "black," and individuals who reported that they were "Caucasian" were recoded as "white." A small number of respondents, less than 1%, were statistically imputed to a Hispanic origin or racial classification based on the interviewer-observed race of the respondent and on data on race and Hispanic origin that were collected during household screening. No information is collected on respondents citizenship or country of birth, and thus, no inferences can be made about either. Details of the recoding of "other Hispanic" and "other race" responses and of the statistical imputation procedures are available from SAMHSA.
Table 2.2 presents the sample sizes (combined 1991-93 NHSDAs) of the eleven racial/ethnic categories that are analyzed in Chapters 3 and 4, and the estimated number and percentage of NHSDA target population persons aged 12 and older in each racial/ethnic category. The eleven categories are grouped into five major categories: Native American (including American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut), Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic, non-Hispanic black, and non-Hispanic white, and there are seven subcategories of Hispanic: Caribbean, Central American, Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South American, and other Hispanic. Also shown in Table 2.2 are the corresponding population estimates and population percentages of the eleven subgroups based on the 1990 U.S. Census. The population estimates based on the 1990 U.S. Census are larger, because the Census data are not restricted to individuals aged 12 and older, but the estimated population percentages based on the 1990 U.S. Census are closely similar to the corresponding percentages based on the combined 1991-93 NHSDAs.
To be sure, the similarity between NHSDA and Census estimates in Table 2.2 results in part from the procedures that are used to weight the NHSDA data. As discussed in SAMHSA (1993, 1995b, c), the NHSDA sampling weights are post-stratified to ensure that NHSDA estimates of the percentages of U.S. population in demographic subgroups defined by age, sex, Hispanic origin, and race are consistent with Census Bureau projections based on the 1990 Census. The post-stratification procedure explains why NHSDA and Census estimates of the percentages of Asian/Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, Non-Hispanic blacks, and Non-Hispanic whites are similar in Table 2.2. However, the post-stratification procedure does not fully explain the similarity between NHSDA and Census estimates of the percentages of Native Americans and Hispanic subgroups, because this procedure ensures consistency only for subgroups defined by two categories of Hispanic origin (Hispanic, non-Hispanic) and four categories of race (Asian/Pacific Islander, black, white, other).
Table 2.3 presents the sample sizes of the eleven racial/ethnic subgroups by age group (12 to 17, 18 to 25, 26 to 34, 35 and older), region (Northeast, North Central, South, West), and population density (metropolitan statistical area greater than 1 million, other MSA, and not in MSA). The sample sizes are especially small for Native Americans (n = 416), Hispanic-Caribbean (n = 611), Hispanic-Central American (n = 1,962), Hispanic-South American (n = 1,075), and other Hispanic (n = 1,181). The small sample sizes of these five subgroups explain why the eleven-category classification of Chapters 3 and 4 had to be reduced to only seven categories in the detailed analyses of Chapter 5. The racial/ethnic classification of Chapter 5 combines four Hispanic subgroups of Chapters 3 and 4Caribbean, Central American, South American, and Other Hispanicinto an expanded "Other Hispanic" category, and Chapter 5 does not report results for Native Americans at all.
For brevity in this report, we refer to the Hispanic-Cuban subgroup as "Cubans," to the Hispanic-Mexico subgroup as "Mexicans," to the Hispanic-Puerto Rico subgroup as "Puerto Ricans," to the Hispanic-Caribbean subgroup as "Caribbeans," to the Hispanic-Central America subgroup as "Central Americans," and to the Hispanic-South America subgroup as "South Americans." Except in referring to the results of previous research, this report does not use the terms "Asian-American," "Cuban-American," "Mexican-American," "Puerto Rican-American," and so on. Yet it is worth emphasizing that all of the conclusions of this report pertain strictly to residents of the United States and do not pertain to residents of the countries and geographic areas whose names are used to designate U.S. racial/ethnic subgroups.
All analyses in this report are presented separately for adolescents (individuals aged 12 to 17) and older respondents. Chapter 4 broadly describes the associations between race/ethnicity and substance use by controlling only for the gender and detailed age of the respondent (12 to 17, 18 to 25, 26 to 34, 35 and older). With a few exceptions, the analyses of Chapter 4 suggest that racial/ethnic differences in substance use are similar for males and females. Chapter 5 presents a more detailed analysis of the associations between race/ethnicity and substance use, by controlling for a dozen sociodemographic variables in addition to age of respondent (12 to 17 versus 18 and older). The sociodemographic control variables in Chapter 5 depend on whether the respondent is aged 12 to 17 or 18 or older. For respondents aged 12 to 17, the control variables are region, population density, language of interview (Spanish vs. English), family income, health insurance coverage, receipt of welfare by a member of the household, school enrollment, and family structure (living with two biological parents vs. all other living arrangements). For respondents aged 18 and older, the control variables are region, population density, language of interview (Spanish vs. English), family income, health insurance coverage, receipt of welfare by the household, educational attainment, marital status, employment status, and own children (none vs. one or more).
Based on preliminary analyses, we collapsed family income into three income groups according to whether the family income was less than $20,000, between $20,000 and $40,000, or greater than $40,000. Based on research showing a complex, nonlinear relationship between educational attainment and substance use (Zhu et al., 1996), we distinguished four categories of educational attainment: 0-8 years of schooling, 9-11 years, 12 years, and more than 12 years.
Table 2.4 defines the levels of all sociodemographic control variables that are used in this report and also provides the operational definitions of the levels.
Percentage estimates in the text tables of Chapters 3-5 have been rounded to the nearest one-tenth of one percent and screened to determine whether they meet a required level of statistical precision. Differences between racial/ethnic categories and other demographic subgroups that are reported in the text are statistically significant at the .05 level.
Appendix A discusses details of the statistical precision requirements, sample weighting, and statistical estimation and testing techniques. The tables of Appendix A present standard errors for all statistical estimates that are presented in the text of this report. Like the estimates themselves, the standard errors fully take into account the complex sample design of the NHSDA.
In interpreting the statistical estimates of this report, it is useful to remember that associations between variables are more likely to be statistically significant when the sample size is large. Thus, if differences in substance use prevalence by racial/ethnicity are found to be significant in the total population aged 12 and older but not significant within either the 12 to 17 or the 18 and older age groups, this does not mean that there are no real differences by race/ethnicity within age groups. It only means that such differences cannot be inferred given samples of the size used in this report. In general, associations involving substance use or dependence measures with low overall prevalence are more difficult to identify as statistically significant than associations involving measures with high overall prevalence.
Although statistical significance is an important criterion in interpreting the findings, it should not be the sole one. Some findings of this report involve broad patterns of differential substance use prevalence and dependence by race/ethnicity, patterns that show up in the estimates reported for most or all measures of substance use prevalence and dependence. Such persistent and recurring patterns in the data are often worth noting even when such trends and patterns are difficult to evaluate precisely on the basis of statistical significance tests.
Outcome Measure |
Males (n =39,469 ) |
Females (n=48,446) |
Total (n =87,915 ) | |||
Population. (millions)1 |
% |
Population (millions)1 |
% |
Population (millions)1 |
% | |
Cigarette use- past year |
33.1 |
33.6% |
30.3 |
28.4% |
63.4 |
30.9% |
Alcohol use- past year |
70.2 |
71.3 |
66.1 |
61.9 |
136.3 |
66.4 |
Any illicit drug use- past year2 |
13.9 |
14.1 |
10.5 |
9.8 |
24.4 |
11.9 |
Marijuana use- past year |
11.3 |
11.4 |
7.1 |
6.7 |
18.4 |
9.0 |
Cocaine- past year |
3.4 |
3.5 |
1.8 |
1.7 |
5.2 |
2.5 |
Need for illicit drug abuse treatment |
3.4 |
3.5 |
2.2 |
2.1 |
5.6 |
2.7 |
Alcohol- dependence |
4.9 |
4.9 |
2.3 |
2.1 |
7.1 |
3.5 |
Heavy cigarette use |
15.5 |
15.8 |
12.7 |
11.9 |
28.3 |
13.8 |
Heavy alcohol use |
8.5 |
8.6 |
2.1 |
2.0 |
10.6 |
5.1 |
1The size of the target population for the combined 1991-93 data sets equals the average of the populations represented by the 1991, 1992, and 1993 NHSDAs. The target population comprises 205,257,000 persons, with 98,447,000 males and 106,810,000 females.
2Illicit drugs include marijuana, nonmedical use of psychotherapeutics (sedatives, tranquilizers, analgesics, and stimulants), cocaine (including crack), inhalants, hallucinogens, and heroin.
Source: Office of Applied Studies, SAMHSA, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 1991-93.
Racial/Ethnic Group |
1991-1993 NHSDA (age 12+)* |
1990 U.S. Census1 (all ages) | ||||
Sample Size |
Population Estimate |
Pop. % |
Population Estimate |
Pop. % | ||
Native American (including American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut) 2 |
416 |
1,350,000 |
0.7 |
1,960,000 |
0.8 | |
Asian/Pacific Islander 2 |
2,591 |
5,690,000 |
2.8 |
7,270,000 |
2.9 | |
Hispanic |
21,958 |
17,180,000 |
8.4 |
21,900,000 |
8.8 | |
Caribbean |
611 |
420,000 |
0.2 |
520,000 3 |
0.2 | |
Central American |
1,962 |
1,120,000 |
0.5 |
1,320,000 |
0.5 | |
Cuban |
2,507 |
1,040,000 |
0.5 |
1,040,000 |
0.4 | |
Mexican |
11,699 |
10,020,000 |
4.9 |
13,500,000 |
5.4 | |
Puerto Rican |
2,923 |
2,460,000 |
1.2 |
2,730,000 |
1.1 | |
South American |
1,075 |
760,000 |
0.4 |
1,040,000 |
0.4 | |
Other Hispanic4 |
1,181 |
1,360,000 |
0.7 |
1,920,000 |
0.8 | |
Non-Hispanic blacks |
20,744 |
23,230,000 |
11.3 |
29,280,000 |
11.8 | |
Non-Hispanic whites |
42,206 |
157,820,000 |
76.9 |
188,420,000 |
75.7 | |
87,915 |
205,260,000 |
100.0 |
248,830,000 |
100.0 |
1. 1990 U.S. Census data. Data on Hispanic origin by country are based on a sample tabulation of responses to the long form question on ancestry. From U.S. Bureau of the Census, http://venus.census.gov/cdrom/lookup/862430630.
2. Native American (n =826) and Asian/Pacific Islander (n =305) respondents who also identified themselves as Hispanics were classified as Hispanics.
3. The Caribbean estimate from the 1990 Census is based on a sample tabulation of persons who identified themselves as Dominican in responses to the long form ancestry item.
4. The "other" Hispanic category is comprised mostly of respondents who reported a Hispanic group of "Spanish (Spain)" or "Spanish American." This group also includes respondents who indicated that they were Portuguese, Filipino, "mixed," or did not report a specific Hispanic group.
* NHSDA data were post-stratified to 1980 Census tables by age, gender, and race/ethnicity.
Total |
12-17 |
18-25 |
26-34 |
35+ |
North-east |
North Central |
South |
West |
MSA > 1 Million |
Other MSA |
Not in MSA | |
American Indian/Alaskan Native |
416 |
119 |
111 |
107 |
79 |
38 |
55 |
175 |
148 |
206 |
85 |
125 |
Asian/Pacific Islander |
2591 |
767 |
750 |
648 |
426 |
555 |
326 |
608 |
1102 |
2295 |
243 |
53 |
Caribbean |
611 |
170 |
121 |
176 |
144 |
442 |
7 |
156 |
6 |
570 |
37 |
4 |
Central American |
1962 |
496 |
534 |
595 |
337 |
205 |
56 |
1023 |
678 |
1889 |
63 |
10 |
2507 |
577 |
593 |
647 |
690 |
135 |
30 |
2264 |
78 |
2435 |
65 |
7 | |
11699 |
3339 |
3140 |
3024 |
2196 |
112 |
1271 |
3404 |
6912 |
8379 |
2813 |
507 | |
2923 |
830 |
689 |
719 |
685 |
1763 |
349 |
649 |
162 |
2598 |
279 |
46 | |
1075 |
280 |
257 |
307 |
231 |
268 |
62 |
582 |
163 |
985 |
74 |
16 | |
1181 |
289 |
257 |
314 |
321 |
70 |
46 |
216 |
849 |
708 |
170 |
303 | |
Non-Hispanic blacks |
20744 |
5656 |
4932 |
5493 |
4663 |
3311 |
3805 |
11120 |
2508 |
16479 |
2843 |
1422 |
Non-Hispanic whites |
42206 |
9714 |
9805 |
11954 |
10733 |
7199 |
9681 |
14093 |
11233 |
26517 |
8661 |
7028 |
Source: Office of Applied Studies, SAMHSA, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 1991-93.
Variable |
Levels |
Definition |
Age |
12-17 18-25 26-34 35+ |
Calculated using date of interview and respondents reported date of birth. |
Gender |
Male Female |
As determined by NHSDA interviewer. |
Region |
Northeast North Central South West |
U.S. Census Bureau classification |
Population Density |
MSA >1million Other MSA Not in MSA |
U.S. Bureau of the Census definition of Metropolitan Statistical Area based on 1990 population. |
Interview |
Spanish English |
Language used to administer NHSDA. Respondents were given a choice of Spanish or English. |
Family Income |
< $20,000 $20-40,000 > $40,000 |
Calculated by summing family members (respondents and adult proxies) reports of total income received by all family members from seven sources: 1) jobs or self-employment, 2) Social Security or Railroad Retirement payments, 3) Supplemental Security Income, 4) public assistance or welfare, 5) interest, dividends, rents, royalties, trusts, 6) child support payments, and 7) all other sources. |
Education |
0-8 years 9-11 years High school only > High school |
Respondents (aged 18 and older) reports of their number of years of school completed. |
Employment |
Employed Unemployed Not in labor force |
Respondents aged 18 or older were asked to look at a card and tell which of several statements best described their present work situation. Employed includes those working full-time, part-time, and who have a job but are not at work because of extended illness, maternity leave, furlough, or strike. Unemployed includes those who are unemployed or laid off and looking for work. Not in labor force includes all other responses including student, full-time homemaker, retired, disabled, or something else. |
Marital Status |
Married Widow/div/sep Never married |
Marital status at time of interview for respondents aged 18 or older. |
Own Children |
None 1 or more |
Based on the number of biological, adopted, and stepchildren living in the respondents residence at the time of interview. |
School Dropout |
Yes No |
Respondents aged 12-17 were classified as school dropouts if they had not graduated from high school or received a GED, and were not enrolled in any kind of school. |
Family Structure |
Mother/Father Other |
"Mother/Father" households are those identified by the adolescent respondent as including both a biological/adoptive mother and a biological/adoptive father at the time of the interview. "Other" includes all other households including stepparent and one-parent families. |
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Ryan did not express concerns about cocaine buyers being lured into the city and closing deals in such public locations as parking lots and family restaurants. In a statement to the paper, he said he was told by police that the public has never been in danger.
Let me see if I understand the logic here.
Drugs are illegal because they're a danger to the public. Drug dealing is a danger to the public. Laws are passed making such things illegal.
Luring in drugs and drug dealers from, outside the community isn't a danger to the public.
You would question the logic of
the real free shit armyour Heroes in Blue™? Why do you hate the children, Paul?


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