Sentence examples for abuse rate from inspiring English sources

The Philippines has the highest abuse rate in East Asia for methamphetamines, known locally as shabu.

It found a substance use disorder rate, or what a layperson might call a substance abuse rate, of 2.9% among the general population, up from 1.5% in 2001.

This is why the general refuses to speak of a "drugs war", a metaphor that encourages the delusion that abuse can be eliminated by force, and talks instead of gradually reducing the abuse rate from 6% to 3%.

The one academic study that we know of on the prevalence of sexual abuse in the community focused on women, and suggested an abuse rate only slightly higher than that for the general population, but we did not find broader data.

The news media often report that 81 million families, or 30 percent of China's 270 million families, live with domestic violence, a figure supported by a 2006 survey in Society, a scholarly journal, that also found a 30 percent abuse rate.

She added that the clinic's pharmacy no longer fills prescriptions for painkillers because of the high abuse rate.

Of those that do, most report abuse rates far below the rates found by academic researchers.

"Central Asian countries show alarming signs of fast-increasing abuse rates," it says.

In a 2009 study of 806 teenage girls, Professor Neumark-Sztainer concluded that watching television during dinner had little impact on substance abuse rates.

— Posted by pryrodnyy, Brooklyn, NY Experts we spoke with did not believe abuse rates were any higher in the ultra-Orthodox community than in other communities.

To test for a relationship between offender connectivity with their criminal counterparts and abuse rates we used inferential statistical tests.