(Drug Offenses of State Inmates in the US, 2004) According to the US Justice Department, 27.9% of drug offenders in state prisons are serving time for possession; 69.4% are serving time for trafficking offenses; and 2.7% are in for other..
Hashimotoâs disease is one genetic condition that can cause low thyroid function, but there are others. Any chronic auto-immune disease is likely to result in impaired thyroid function and hypothyroidism.
1 Therefore low cortisol disrupts normal thyroid signaling leading to hypothyroid.  High cortisol levels decrease the conversion of thyroxine (T4) to triiodothyronine (T3) and increase levels of reverse thyroid hormone (rT3). Together this means lower thyroid function and hypothyroid.