The following tips may be helpful to you in getting your test results: 1  Give it time. 2  Let your doctor know who, what, when, where, and how. 3  Make an appointment. 4  Make it clear that you want to know the results â even if everythingâs OK. 5  Keep records.
What most people don't realize is that the majority of long-term, hard-core drug addicts are dying in their 40s and 50s. The latest studies show that the life expectancy of a drug addict is 15 to 20 years after they start being a drug addict. So what we see is a replenishment of the population, a new crop of addicts. There are no 90-year-old heroin addicts. Most of those we were recording 20 years ago have died.
According to non-governmental U.S. sources; 1  Average victims age is 11 to 14. 2  Approx 80% are women and children bought, sold and imprisoned in the underground sex service industry. 3  Average life span of a victim is reported to be 7 years (found dead from attack, abuse, HIV and other STD's, malnutrition, overdose or suicide)