Drugs in U.S.
In the United States, the 2006 National Survey about Drugs Use and Health revealed that 35.3 million Americans 12 years or older reportedly used cocaine. 8.6% of the Americans declared having used Crack. Cocaine remains as the illegal most
mentioned drug by the ERs on the Drugs Abuse Alert Network on USA.
In 2005, 448,481 entries on ERs involving cocaine were registered. The National Survey about Drugs Use in US showed that there were 153,000 users in 2007. Other estimates present results as high as 900,000.
The United States government reported that in 2008 more than 13 million people 12 years or older had used methamphetamine and that 529,000 from these were regular users.
In 2007, 4.7% of the senior American college students and 4.1% of the tenth year students reported having used methamphetamine at least once. The effects of this drug, like distorted vision, turn the user into a dangerous driver, and transform the truck driver into a driving kamikaze.
The youth is exposed to the drugs earlier than ever. 35% of the High School students admitted having had some experience with drugs. According to The Atlanta Journal – Constitution, in 2017 a Middle School American teacher in Georgia was arrested with 6 ton of cocaine and heroin.
- In 2015, 33,000 Americans lost their lives due to drugs overdose.
- In 2016, 64,000 Americans lost their lives due to drugs overdose.
- In 2017, 72,000 Americans lost their lives due to drugs overdose.
- This number went up to 96,000 in 2020, what is equivalent to 263 deaths per day, or 11 per hour;
- In 2023, 300 Americans lost their lives due to drugs overdose per day;
This is just a small excerpt of the drugs reality in the United States – not to mention the criminality rates connected to the drugs, which have been taking so many families to tears.
Sources: The Atlanta Journal, Fox News…
PS: The project America without Drugs shall perform, with the support of the Justice system and of the Universities, a wide and updated research to diagnose the current reality about drugs in US. The new numbers that will come out from this research will surely confirm the reality we have been seeing daily: “the drugs use is growing at a scary rate”.
