“‘There is a generational bias going on,’ declared Mike Males, PhD, a lecturer in sociology at the University of California’s Santa Cruz campus. ‘Of 3700 drug deaths in California during 2003, only 51 were [in people] under the age of 20.’ Consistent with this trend in drug-related deaths, the Drug Addiction Help Line, a referral service, reported that the average age of a person likely to die of a drug overdose was 43 years in 2005, up from 32 years in 1985 and 22 years in 1970.”
