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The world in drugs use

The Guardian

Friday 26 Jun 2009

Want to know how many people use drugs in your country? These are the latest numbers

for a PDF of the graphic
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2009/06/24/druguse2506.pdf

The annual World Drug Report, published today by the UN office on drugs and crime, charts what it sees as the decline in production of cocaine and heroin but a rise in amphetamines and synthetic drugs.

The report finds "seismic shifts" in the cocaine market and a decline in the use of cannabis by young people in the United States and western Europe. It examines the trends in use and seizures of all the major drugs and the changes in routes for trafficking. The survey provides evidence, according to the executive director of UNODC, Antonio Maria Costa, that drug use needs to be treated as an illness and that the traffickers rather than users should be targetted by law enforcement agencies worldwide.

DATA: download the full spreadsheet
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=raO73jlrVhTjBiJB7MP2Fbg

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jun/24/drugs-trade-drugs

 

 

 

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