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UK: Drug users spending £6bn a year on habit Stewart Tendler The Times Saturday 22 Sep 2001 HEROIN and crack cocaine addicts who commit crimes to pay for their drugs could each be stealing an average of £15,000 a year, and some are committing up to 800 offences. The figures are based on Home Office research papers released yesterday which estimate that £2.3 billion is being spent on heroin by up to 295,000 users. They also show that overall, drug users in Britain are spending more than £6.6 billion a year on illegal drugs ranging from heroin to cannabis and ecstasy. Of that, £1.8 billion is being paid out for cocaine and £353 million for crack cocaine by about 290,000 users. Cannabis is used by over three million people who spend £1.5 billion a year. Another 126,000 users spent £214 million on amphetamines. The latest consumer figures from the Office of National Statistics for 1999 to 2000 show that the 25 million households in the UK spend nearly £20 billion a year on alcohol and nearly £8 billion on tobacco.
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