Mar 27 2009
The Osbourne’s A True Inspiration
Sharon Osbourne was asked a question on Thursday that sparked her fury and I don’t blame her. Whilst Sharon Osbourne was conducting a telephone conference she was asked a down right stupid question, Sharon was asked if her past would prove controversial in their new roles on the “Osbournes Reloaded” show, Sharon said it was “most ridiculous question I have ever been asked in my entire career.”
“I am really angry. Do you know how many people in this country alone suffer from addiction?
In 2001 nearly thirty percent of kids between the ages of twelve and seventeen reported
using drugs.
That same year over half of respondents between the ages of eighteen and twenty five reported recent drug use.
In a study done by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the following drug statistics were discovered:
In 2004 More than nineteen million Americans over the age of twelve were currently using drugs-including harder and illicit drugs.
There were more than sixteen million adult Americans (over the age of eighteen) using illicit drugs.
In 2004, nearly twenty three million Americans had dependency problems with drugs. About an eighth of these abused alcohol and drugs and half of the total number of users abused alcohol but did not have abuse problems with illicit drugs.
Finally, consider the following statistics from the 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health done by the Office of Applied Studies at the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
In 2007 nearly twenty percent of adults over eighteen that were polled confessed to abusing illicit drugs within a month of the poll taking place. Marijuana was the second highest drug used in this poll and came in at just over sixteen percent of users polled.
This same survey found that males were more likely to abuse illicit drugs and marijuana while all other drugs were about even with both genders.
Sharon Osbourne has a right to feel angry I mean as a family The Osbourne’s have been through some real crap and yet come out the other side.
