Drug Use Statistics: The Facts!The usage of drugs renders massive amounts of population unable to reunite their life with their own expectations from it. With harmful drug usage, there is a wide gap between our thinking about what should be and what actually happens in life. Drug usage statistics in America reveals that nearly 21.6 millions of the people in America were extensively hooked on to substances such as drugs and alcohol as well. There have been a lot of people out there who could not escape from the clutches of their drug usage. According to the drug usage statistics of National survey on drugs and mental health services, nearly 26 million of the people have been classified as drug substance dependent. But this drug usage statistics did not include the estimation of around 19 million of the people who pursue their drug addiction illegally. This is an enormous 8.2 percentage of population who are 12 years of age and over than 12 years. These drug usage statistics create a rising sense of alarm, as it is mostly the younger generation who are plunging headlong into these harmful habits that seems to benefit them in no way at all. The drug usage statistics states the fact that there is a universal craving for drugs, especially amongst the younger generation, who think it is 'hip' to be 'part of the crowd'! So, this needs some action to be taken to stop it. According to the American's drug usage statistics, about 69 percent of the people were using Marijuana, the most frequently used illegal drug among the drug users. This drug has been used by nearly 6.2 percent of the population that is around 14.5 million of the people in America. Another drug usage statistics shows that on an average, nearly 7000 Americans were using Marijuana every day for the first time. This statistics also reveals that nearly two third of these Americans were below 18 years of age and surprisingly, that half of them were female! The other common drugs usage statistics reveals that estimates of 2.3 million of the people were using cocaine drugs. From this 2.3 million people nearly 604,000 were using the more powerful split. Another drug named hallucinogens were used by about 1 million of the Americans with an estimate of 119000 were heroin users. From another drug usage statistics, we come to know that the number of Ecstasy drug users has come down to 20 percent, that is, from 676,000 to 473,000 during the year 2002 to 2003. Similarly the LSD use has been halved to 50 percent that is from one million to 550000 people. A general drug usage statistics shows that about 6.3 million of the people were undergoing non medical treatment like psychotherapeutic drugs. Approximately this statistics shows that nearly 2.7 percent of the people are 12 years of age and above. Among this 2.7 percent of the people an estimate of 4.7 million are using the pain relievers, around 1.2 million using tonic varieties, 1.8 million of the people are using tranquillizers and nearly 0.3 million of the people are using narcotics. |