Methamphetamine statistics

UNODC statistics take all of this information into consideration and suggest that there are between 15 and 16 million methamphetamine users worldwide, i.e. a similar number as heroin or cocaine users at the global level. The number of amphetamine users is estimated to be lower, at around 4 million people. A further 5 million people are estimated to consume various diverted pharmaceutical preparations or other illegal stimulants, such as methcathinone. Again, it is important to recall that these are only tentative estimates based on information made available to UNODC by Member States. Furthermore, one should be aware that the actual numbers for the individual substances could be slightly higher as poly-drug use is known to be common, and could well extend to ATS consumption as well.1... 

For statistical reasons, this applies in particular to amphetamine and to the category of other amphetamines and diverted amphetamines , but less for methamphetamine. 

Since 1971, the DEA has described Ritalin as a powerful stimulant that shares many of the pharmacological effects of amphetamine, methamphetamine, and cocaine. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) agrees. In its book Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders (1989), the association states that Ritalin is neuropharma-cologically similar to cocaine and amphetamines, and that all three drugs share the same abuse patterns. The Diagnostic and Statistic... 

Methamphetamine Dangers Cancer Statistics in the United States... 

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