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   Hair Drug Testing Can Detect Drug Use
   For Up To 90 Days!

The Fact Is

45% of Canadians have admitted to drug use in their lifetime, and 14.4% have admitted to drug use in the past year.
(Canadian Addiction Survey, Health Canada, 2004)
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1 in 10 workers (11%) reported using alcohol while at work and 4% reported using alcohol 4 hours prior to coming to work during the previous 12 months.
(Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commision (AADAC), 2003)

 

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Alberta Drug and Alcohol Statistics

  • Albertans consumed 8.7 litres of alcohol per person in the year ending March 2002, compared to 7.7 litres across Canada.
    (Statistics Canada)
     
  • In 2004, about $30 million of marijuana was seized from grow ops in the Edmonton region.
    (The final report of the Edmonton community drug strategy task force, 2007)
     
  • An estimated 640,632 (2.6%) Canadians (age 15 and older) are suggested to be alcohol dependent
    (Canadian Community Health Survey 2002)
  • In Alberta, 85,524 (3.5%) of the population are suggested to be alcohol dependent
         (AADAC 2005, Quick Facts about Alcohol, Tobacco, other Drugs, and Problem Gambling)
  • In 2002, 15.8% of suicides in Alberta were related to the use of alcohol or other drugs
    (AADAC 2005, Quick Facts about Alcohol, Tobacco, other Drugs, and Problem Gambling)

 

Youth Statistics

  • In a 2002 survey, 5.3% of Alberta students (grades 7 to 12) used club drugs (ecstasy or crystal meth) in the past year
     (AADAC 2005, Quick Facts about Alcohol, Tobacco, other Drugs, and Problem Gambling)
  • Most users of cannabis, hallucinogens and speed began use at between 15 and 19 years of age; users of cocaine and ecstacy tended to have begun use inn their twenties.
    (Canaidian Addiction Survey 2004)
  • 15.4% of Edmonton adults used cannabis, or marijuana, in the year prior to being surveyed.  Use among Edmonton youth is nearly twice that figure, or 31.1% (27.6% across Alberta).
     (Alberta Addiction Survey)
  • 63.4% of students had consumed alcohol in the last 12 months.
  • 31.3% of all students reported incidents of binge drinking.
  • The most commonly used illicit drugs are hallucinogens, with 9% of students reporting use in the past year.
  • 1.1% of all students report using crystal meth in the last 12 months.
    (AADAC's Alberta Youth Experience Survey, 2005.  Students in grades 7-12)
  • The vast majority of Alberta youth use alcohol and more than 26% have used cannabis in the past year.  The most often used illegal drug in both Canada and Alberta is marijuana.
    (The final report of the Edmonton community drug strategy task force, 2007)

 

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