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Between 1988 and 1995, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) estimates that Americans spent 57.3 billion on drugs for nonmedical purposes. 

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The U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) valued the market at US 35 billion in 2000. Since that time, prices have declined and use rates have been fairly stable. See Office of National Drug Control Policy, What America s Users Spend on Illegal Drugs 1988-2000, Washington, D.C. Executive Office of the President, December 2001, p. 14. 

Inhalant abuse is a financial drain on society as well. Indian Health Services estimates a cost of 1.6 million to treat a young adult with a history of inhalant abuse and all its associated physical, mental, legal, occupational, and social problems. The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) estimates that illegal drugs cost the U.S. economy 160 billion in the year 2000, an annual increase of 5.8% between 1998 and 2000. That estimate includes 14.8 billion in healthcare costs and 110.4 billion in lost productivity from drug-related illness, incarceration, and death. 

While swallowing the pills or dissolving them in liquid are the most common ways to take Rohypnol, reports suggest some abusers crush the pills and snort the powder much as they would cocaine. The White House s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) also indicates there is evidence that some abusers are injecting powdered Rohypnol with hypodermic needles, possibly as a cheap substitute for heroin. 

In 1997 the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), General Barry McCaffrey, faced a big public relations problem. Even though McCaffrey, several former presidents, and many others lobbied against medical marijuana initiatives in California and Arizona, the citizens of those states voted to legalize medical marijuana. McCaffrey stuck to his conviction that marijuana was not medicine and vowed that the federal government would prosecute patients and doctors who broke federal marijuana laws. 

This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH. The authors thank the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) for instrumentation funding, without which this and other projects could not have been accomplished and Dr. J Albert Schultz and Tom Egan (lonwerks, Inc.) for assistance with the ion mobility mass spectrometer and the imaging computer software. 

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The Office of National Drug Control Policy s (ONDCP) study of 21 major metropolitan areas in the United States revealed that the most likely user of heroin is over 30 years old. However, younger adults (18-30) comprise a substantial portion of those believed to be experimenting with heroin use. In the South, younger adults are more likely than adults over 30 to be regular users of the drug. 

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