"population" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Critics say transplanted foreign programs won't work in New York because the addict population is different.
- The 900 drug users in the clean-needle program represent less than 10 percent of the local addict population.
- In Edinburgh, which has a large addict population, for instance, the clean-needle program is open one afternoon a week and handles 70 addicts.
- For one thing, the federal government's National Drug Control Strategy for 1996 says that the addict population is basically stable.
- Rates are still much lower among addicts in other cities, and it may be among these addict populations that the epidemic has greatest potential for growth.
- New York has the nation's largest addict population, yet state and city officials lack the resolve even to test a needle exchange program.
- Private treatment centers are, on average, only 55 percent full and can accommodate a good portion of the largest addict population: employed 18- to 40-year-olds.
- The effects of drug education programs in schools may not be felt for years; much of the addict population doesn't go to school.
- Social scientists and drug-treatment experts say they, too, are seeing an aging of the addict population.
- Moreover, he said, four-fifths of the slots were geared to heroin addicts, who account for less than half the addict population.
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