Figure 1.

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Figure 1.
Excellent News
Disturbing News
Continued High Rates in Nonmedical Use of
OxyContin Vicodin in the Past 12 Months
Decreases in Past Month Use of Any Illicit Drug
Nearly 1 in 10 12th Graders Abused Vicodin Last
Year

17 Decline 2001 to 2004
22
12.0
10.5
20
19.4
10.0
9.6
9.3
18.2
18
17.3
8.0
16.1
Percent
16
Percent
6.0
14
5.0
4.5
4.0
4.0
12
10
2.0
8th, 10th and 12th Grade Students Combined
0.0
OxyContin
Vicodin
2001
2002
2003
2004
2002
2003
2004

P Source Monitoring the Future Study, 2004.
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Partial Recovery of Brain Metabolism in
Methamphetamine (METH) Abuserafter Protracted
Abstinence
Figure 2.
METH Abuser (27 y/o, Female) 13 months detox
METH Abuser (27 y/o, Female) 3 months detox
Control Subject (30 y/o, Female)
Source Wang, G-J et al., Am J Psychiatry 1612,
February 2004.
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Figure 3.
Partial Recovery of Brain Dopamine
Transporters In Methamphetamine (METH) Abuser
After Protracted Abstinence
Source Volkow, ND et al., Journal of
Neuroscience 21, 9414-9418, 2001.
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Figure 4.
Routine HIV Screening in Health Care Settings Can
Provide Important Health Survival Benefits
And Can Be As Cost-Effective As Screening for
Such Other Conditions As Breast Cancer
Hypertension
2.0 1.8 1.6 1.4 1.2 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2
0.0
200,000 180,000 160,000 140,000 120,000 100,0
00 80,000 60,000 40,000 20,000 0
Life expectancy
Increase in Life Expectancy Due to Screening (Yr)
Incremental Cost-Effectiveness of
Screening (/quality-adjusted life year)
Quality-adjusted life expectancy
Costs and benefits to partners excluded
Costs and benefits to partners included
30 40 50 60
70 80 90
0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7
0.8 0.9 1.0
Prevalence of Unidentified HIV ()
AGE (Yr)
Source Sanders, GD et al., NEJM 352(6), February
10, 2005.