Drugs: Report Shows Almost 16 Million Americans Use Illegal Drugs

From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 02:47:18 MDT


If this is genuine, why on earth are all these people owning up to
breaking the law?

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>Report Shows Almost 16 Million Americans Currently Use Illegal Drugs
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>Today (September 5, 2002), the US government released the results of the
>2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, the primary method of
>estimating the prevalence of illicit drug, alcohol and tobacco use in
>the US. According to the Survey, in 2001 15.9 million Americans age 12
>and older used an illicit drug in the month immediately prior to the
>survey interview. This represents an estimated 7.1 percent of the
>population in 2001, compared to an estimated 6.3 percent the previous
>year. Additionally, the Survey found that 1.9 million persons used
>Ecstasy (MDMA) for the first time last year, and that an estimated 8.1
>million persons have tried MDMA at least once in their lifetime.
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