Drug Addiction Statistics

Drug Addiction statistics are used to determine drug trends ranging from abuse to legal consequences. Many networks have been established to provide cutting edge Drug Addiction statistics in the United States and across the world. These networks use information gathered from emergency room visits, medical examiners, and coroners to name a few. Once this information is gathered, it is then categorized by its informational content and compared to similar Drug Addiction statistics in the recent past. This information shows the "popularity", trends, and deaths caused directly or indirectly by particular drugs.

Drug Addiction statistics can benefit the public by displaying factual evidence that certain drugs are becoming a problem. Also, Drug Addiction statistics show the growing trends of drug use which will give us a look to the future. Hopefully, this will help in preventing the rise of Drug Addiction.

In one research study, approximately 1 in 5 people between the ages of 16 and 59 said that they had taken at least one of the drugs mentioned.
People ages 18 to 21 were most likely to admit having taken drugs with almost half (46%) claiming to have taken them.
More men than women said that they had taken drugs. 24% of men and 16% of women had taken at least one kind of drug in their lives. Amongst those ages 18-21; 51% of men and 38% of women had taken drugs.
More men than women had experienced taking more than one drug at a time. 52% of men but only 36% of women who had taken drugs had taken more than one type.
Marijuana was the most commonly used drug, experienced by 12% of all participants and 24% of those ages 18 to 25.
19.5 million people over the age of 12 use illegal drugs in the United States (Mayo Clinic).
19,000 deaths occurred from Drug Addiction in the US (Mayo Clinic).
9,102 persons died of drug-induced causes in 1999 USA (NVSR Sep 2001).
Death rate extrapolations for Drug Addiction in the United States: 19,102 per year, 1,591 per month, 367 per week, 52 per day, 2 per hour, 0 per minute, 0 per second.
Emergency department visits involving Ecstasy increased 58 percent in the United States, from 2,850 visits in 1999 to 4,511 in 2000.
The number of emergency department visits involving heroin/morphine increased 15%, from 84,409 to 97,287.
There were 601,776 estimated drug-related emergency department episodes in 2000. Among these, there were 1,100,539 drug mentions. Keep in mind, more than one drug may be in a person's system at the time of admission.
Alcohol in combination with other drugs was the most frequently mentioned drug at time of emergency department admission (204,524), followed by cocaine (174,896), heroin/morphine (97,287), and marijuana (96,446).
From 1999 to 2000, emergency department mentions of prescription drugs containing oxycodone increased 68%(from 6,429 to 10,825), and mentions of drugs containing hydrocodone increased 31% (from 14,639 to 19,221).
From 1998 to 2000, mentions of oxycodone and hydrocodone increased 108%.
Employed Drug Abusers cost their employers about twice as much in medical and worker compensation claims as their drug-free coworkers.
Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug. In 2001, it was used by 76% of current illicit drug users.
In 2001, an estimated 15.9 million Americans ages 12 or older were current illicit drug users, meaning they had used an illicit drug during the month prior to the survey interview. This estimate represents 7.1% of the population ages 12 years old or older.
The percentage of the population using illicit drugs increased from 6.3% in 1999 and 2000 to 7.1% in 2001. Between 2000 and 2001, statistically significant increases were noted for the current use of marijuana (4.8 to 5.4%), cocaine (0.5 to 0.7%), pain relievers (1.2 to 1.6%), and Tranquilizers (0.4 to 0.6%).
There were 19,102 deaths from drug-induced causes in 1999 (legal and illegal drugs).
The number of persons with Drug Addiction problems increased from 14.5 million (6.5 percent of the population) in 2000 to 16.6 million (7.3%) in 2001.
In 1999 there were 179,000 treatment admissions for primary injection Drug Addiction and 34,000 admissions for secondary injection Drug Addiction.
Opiates accounted for 83% of admissions for injection Drug Addiction, followed by methamphetamine/amphetamine (11%), and cocaine (5%)
Among 1999 injected drug admissions, persons admitted for injecting opiates averaged 14 years of use before entering treatment for the first time. Those admitted for injecting methamphetamine/amphetamine averaged 12 years, and for cocaine 13 years.

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In every year from 1995 to 2005, most Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) admissions for primary heroin addiction injected the drug. However, the proportion of primary heroin admissions who injected the drug declined from 69 percent in 1995 to 63 percent in 2005 (despite an 8 percent increase in the number of such admissions over this time period). Although inhalation has remained the second most frequent route of administration, the proportion of primary heroin admissions who inhaled the drug increased from 27 percent in 1995 to 33 percent in 2005.

The makeshift equipment of an average clandestine meth lab would fit in a small cardboard box or cooler. Meth labs have been set up in kitchens, bath tubs, sheds, back yards, ice houses and vehicles.

Often these heroin users are under the misconception that if they do not inject the drug they will not become addicted. Those who have entered rehab to recover from heroin addiction include every method of heroin user. Annual admissions to substance abuse treatment for primary heroin abuse increased from 228,000 in 1995 to 254,000 in 2005; however, the proportion of primary heroin admissions remained steady at about 14 to 15 percent of all admissions. Between 1995 and 2005, inhalation and injection accounted for at least 94 percent of annual primary heroin admissions.

Marijuana is the most commonly abused illicit drug in the United States. It is a dry, shredded green and brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves derived from the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. The main active chemical in marijuana is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol; THC for short.

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