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Any Illicit Drug Addiction or Drug Abuse in New York Over a One Year
Period (Annual Averages Based on 2002 and 2003 National Survey on Drug Use
and Health):
- In New York 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 482,000. For this estimation
illicit drugs includes marijuana/hashish, cocaine (including crack), heroin,
hallucinogens, inhalants, or any prescription-type psychotherapeutic used
nonmedically
- An estimated 83,000 of the individuals with an illicit drug addiction
or drug abuse problem in New York over a one year period were between
the ages of 12-17 years old.
- An estimated 181,000 of the individuals with an illicit drug addiction
or drug abuse problem in New York over a one year period were between
the ages of 18-25 years old.
- An estimated 219,000 of the individuals with an illicit drug addiction
or drug abuse problem in New York over a one year period were 26 or
older.
Any Illicit Drug Use Other Than Marijuana in New York Over a One Month
Period (Annual Averages Based on 2002 and 2003 National Survey on Drug Use
and Health):
- In New York 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 492,000. For this estimation illicit drugs
include cocaine (including crack), heroin, hallucinogens, inhalants, or any
prescription-type psychotherapeutic used nonmedically
- An estimated 76,000 of illicit drug users other than marijuana users
in New York over a one month period were between the ages of 12-17
years old.
- An estimated 153,000 of illicit drug users other than marijuana users
in New York over a one month period were between the ages of 18-25
years old.
- An estimated 263,000 of illicit drug users other than marijuana users
in New York over a one month period were 26 or older.
Illicit Drug Use in New York Over a One Month Period (Annual Averages
Based on 2002 and 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health):
- In New York 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 1,416,000. For this estimation illicit drugs include marijuana/hashish,
cocaine (including crack), heroin, hallucinogens, inhalants, or any prescription-type
psychotherapeutic used nonmedically
- An estimated 182,000 of the illicit drug users in New York were between
the ages of 12-17 years old.
- An estimated 487,000 of the illicit drug users in New York were between
the ages of 18-25 years old.
- An estimated 747,000 of the illicit drug users in New York were 26
or older.
New York Statistics
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Both new and experienced users risk overdosing on heroin because it is impossible for them to know the purity of the heroin they are using. (Heroin sold on the street often is mixed with other substances such as sugar, starch, or quinine. An added risk results when heroin is mixed with poisons such as strychnine.) Heroin overdoses--which can result whether the drug is snorted, smoked, or injected--can cause slow and shallow breathing, convulsions, coma, and even death. According to the North Dakota Attorney General’s office, state legislation which controlled sale of over-the-counter cold medications like Sudafed reduced the number of local labs significantly from 190 lab incidents in 2005 to 40 in 2006. As a result of the U.S. Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005, a subsection of the PATRIOT Act, there are restrictions on the amount of pseudoephedrine and ephedrine that can be used to make meth one may purchase in a specified time period, and further requirements that these products must be stored in order to prevent theft. In federal court today, low-level crack dealers and first-time offenders sentenced for trafficking of crack cocaine receive an average sentence of 10 years and six months. |
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