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Any Illicit Drug Addiction or Drug Abuse in Illinois Over a One Year
Period (Annual Averages Based on 2002 and 2003 National Survey on Drug Use
and Health):
- In Illinois it was estimated on a survey-weighted hierarchical Bayes estimation
approach that the total number of individuals with an illicit drug addiction
or drug abuse problem over a one year period was 289,000. For this estimation
illicit drugs includes marijuana/hashish, cocaine (including crack), heroin,
hallucinogens, inhalants, or any prescription-type psychotherapeutic used
nonmedically
- An estimated 58,000 of the individuals with an illicit drug addiction
or drug abuse problem in Illinois over a one year period were between
the ages of 12-17 years old.
- An estimated 106,000 of the individuals with an illicit drug addiction
or drug abuse problem in Illinois over a one year period were between
the ages of 18-25 years old.
- An estimated 124,000 of the individuals with an illicit drug addiction
or drug abuse problem in Illinois over a one year period were 26 or
older.
Any Illicit Drug Use Other Than Marijuana in Illinois Over a One Month
Period (Annual Averages Based on 2002 and 2003 National Survey on Drug Use
and Health):
- In Illinois it was estimated on a survey-weighted hierarchical Bayes estimation
approach that the total number of illicit drug users other than marijuana
users in a one month period was 339,000. For this estimation illicit drugs
include cocaine (including crack), heroin, hallucinogens, inhalants, or any
prescription-type psychotherapeutic used nonmedically
- An estimated 56,000 of illicit drug users other than marijuana users
in Illinois over a one month period were between the ages of 12-17
years old.
- An estimated 104,000 of illicit drug users other than marijuana users
in Illinois over a one month period were between the ages of 18-25
years old.
- An estimated 179,000 of illicit drug users other than marijuana users
in Illinois over a one month period were 26 or older.
Illicit Drug Use in Illinois Over a One Month Period (Annual Averages
Based on 2002 and 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health):
- In Illinois it was estimated on a survey-weighted hierarchical Bayes estimation
approach that the total number of illicit drug users in a one month period
was 772,000. For this estimation illicit drugs include marijuana/hashish,
cocaine (including crack), heroin, hallucinogens, inhalants, or any prescription-type
psychotherapeutic used nonmedically
- An estimated 117,000 of the illicit drug users in Illinois were between
the ages of 12-17 years old.
- An estimated 279,000 of the illicit drug users in Illinois were between
the ages of 18-25 years old.
- An estimated 375,000 of the illicit drug users in Illinois were 26
or older.
Illinois Statistics
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338,000 people used heroin last month. The cultivation of opium in Afghanistan reached its peak in 1999, when 225,000 acres - 350 square miles - of poppies were sown. The following year the Taliban banned poppy cultivation, a move which cut production by 94 per cent. By 2001 only 30 square miles of land was in use for growing opium poppies. A year later, after American and British troops had removed the Taliban and installed the interim government, the land under cultivation leapt back to 285 square miles, with Afghanistan supplanting Burma to become the world's largest opium producer once more. In 2004, 8,000 meth labs were seized in the US. Child welfare workers removed more than 3,000 children from the labs. Street heroin is widely varying and unpredictable in purity. This means that the user may prepare what they consider to be a moderate dose while actually taking far more than intended. If this occurs and the user takes a dose comparable to their previous use, the user may experience drug effects that are much greater than expected, potentially resulting in a dangerous overdose. |
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