Drug use trends

UNODC s Annual Reports Questionnaire. Points allocated for trend data strong increase 2 some increase 1 stable 0 some decline -1 strong decline -2. Reported drug use trends were weighted by the proportion of amphetamines users in a country expressed as a per centage of global amphetamine use. If all countries had reported some increase , the global trend line would have increased by one point each year and would have reached 113 by 200. ... 

Number of countries territories reporting drug use trends to UNODC... 

Regional distribution of reports received on drug use trends for the years 2002-2005... 

It should also be noted that the Drug Use Trend as perceived by experts is limited in that it only provides general directions with regard to the main drug types reported by Member States, inevitably leading to very broad generalization. Thus, there remains a need for more drug-specific trend analysis to support the conclusions. 

The MTF survey is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Since 1975, it has tracked illicit drug use trends and attitudes of 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students. These surveys ask students about lifetime use, past year use, past month use, and daily use of drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco. Marijuana-specific data are broken out in the survey. 

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FIGURE 33-1. Trends in illicit drug use in eighth, tenth, and twelfth graders from the Monitoring the Future Survey. Data from reference 2. 

Vlahov, D., et al., Trends of HIV-1 risk reduction among initiates into intravenous drug use 1982-1987, Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse, 17, 39, 1991. 

This also reflects major differences on the estimates of total drug use in the Russian Federation. A review of current estimates of the total number of drug users showed a range from 1.5 million to 6 million people (UNODC, Illicit Drug Trends in the Russian Federation, 2005). 

Estimates of cocaine related problem drug use in Spain remain lower than those reported from the USA (1.4% of the population age 15-64)23 but they are showing upward trends 0.2 per cent in 1999, 0.5 per cent in 20 0224 and it is very likely that the rates have continued... 

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