Knoema.com - Drugs http://knoema.es 2021-04-29T06:04:31Z /favicon.png Knoema es su Autopista personal hacia el conocimiento US Cannabis Industry and Marijuana Use Statistics //knoema.es/fcqzrt/us-cannabis-industry-and-marijuana-use-statistics 2021-04-29T06:04:31Z Misha Gusev knoema.es://knoema.es/user/1000560
US Cannabis Industry and Marijuana Use Statistics

(15 April 2021) On January 1, 2014, establishments licensed by the state of Colorado began commercial sales of marijuana to the general public, which led cannabis industry stock values to skyrocket by about 200% from January to March 2014 as measured by the MJIC Marijuana Global Index. Since then, 15 more states in the US have adopted the legal use of marijuana, with the New York becoming the 16th state and the nation’s second-largest legal marijuana market in March of this year. Moreover, on March 31, the Senate Majority Leader supported the initiative to legalize the market at the federal level. Gallup Poll Social Survey responses over the past twenty years indicate that support for marijuana legalization has been growing steadily in the United States. The most recent survey, conducted in 2020, finds that 68% of US adults now support legalization.  According to the 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, in Oregon, Colorado, Vermont, Maine, Alaska, Washington, Nevada, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and the District of Columbia more than 20% of the population aged 12+ years had regularly used cannabis in the previous year. Crime statistics from the FBI show that these states have slightly higher crime rates (measured as the number of crimes per 1000 population) than other states.  As more states move towards the legalization of marijuana, the cannabis industry continues to grow rapidly. The MJIC Marijuana North American Index hit a two-year high in February 2021.  

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US | 2020 is the Deadliest Year in US Drug Overdose Epidemic //knoema.es/bzaifsd/us-2020-is-the-deadliest-year-in-us-drug-overdose-epidemic 2021-04-15T07:02:41Z Misha Gusev knoema.es://knoema.es/user/1000560
US | 2020 is the Deadliest Year in US Drug Overdose Epidemic

(9 April 2021)  As the coronavirus forced shutdowns, the number of drug deaths in the US started spiking. The latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that in 2020* the rate over overdose deaths in the US rose 25% over the previous year. Isolation, stress, loss of income and lower availability of support and health services during COVID-19 health crisis are thought to be the key reasons for growing number of drug overdose deaths.Drug overdoses killed an estimated 85,516 people during a twelve-month period ending in August 2020. Deaths from synthetic opioids, the highest contributor to drug overdose deaths, increased over 50% year-over-year.A state-by-state breakdown of CDC data shows that twenty states reported a 30% or greater increase in drug overdose deaths from August 2019 to August 2020. Louisiana and Washington, DC, recorded the steepest increases — 52% and 58%, respectively. * year-over-year in the 12 months leading up to August 2020.

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Intoxicants usage among US students by grade, sex and race //knoema.es/dmufshg/intoxicants-usage-among-us-students-by-grade-sex-and-race 2020-12-17T22:34:34Z Alex Kulikov knoema.es://knoema.es/user/1847910
Intoxicants usage among US students by grade, sex and race

Drug use among American students is a persistent and serious problem in modern US society. The development of telecommunication services has seriously simplified the process of accessing drugs not only for adults, but even for children, and contributed to a shift in the use patterns of 12th, 10th and 8th graders who regularly use intoxicants.  According to the survey conducted by US National Center for Health Statistics, alcohol remains the most "popular" intoxicant among observed groups. The use of alcohol by the survey group, along with cigarettes, cocaine, and (for the most part) ecstasy, steeply decreased between the 1998 and 2013 surveys. In contrast, marijuana use among all age groups surveyed increased between 2008 and 2013 and, for 12th and 10th-grade respondents, nearly reached the record use levels reported in 1998. Notably, absent from the survey is a group of intoxicants extensively covered in US news media: prescription medications. Perhaps we'll see this apparent modern intoxicant of choice added to future surveys.

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Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States //knoema.es/nczmtkf/drug-overdose-deaths-in-the-united-states 2018-09-07T14:04:57Z Alex Kulikov knoema.es://knoema.es/user/1847910
Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States

Deaths by drug overdose have surged in the US in recent years, reaching what some call epidemic levels in select states and among certain segments of the US population. Drug overdose deaths in the United States have increased three-fold since 1999 from roughly 17,000 deaths to about 52,500 deaths in 2015, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Over the same period, the overdose death rate increased from 6 to 16 deaths per 100,000 people, which means that it grew at a much higher pace than did the US population. To put this further into perspective, the CDC data tell us that in 2015 more people died from drug overdoses in the United States than died from armed conflict in Africa.  Among US states, the "leader" based on number of drug overdose deaths in 2015 was California with 4,659 deaths. Taking total population into account, however, California’s rate is almost four times lower than that of West Virginia, the state with the highest overdose-related death rate.Approximately half of all deaths were caused by an overdose of heroin and natural semi-synthetic opioids. This is particularly interesting given that the retail prices for heroin in the United States have increased considerably since 1999. The growth in deaths from drug overdose is a significant public health burden in the United States. This burden disproportionately affects specific segments of the population, and these populations are shifting in some instances.The 2015 data shows that the number of overdose deaths among adults aged 45-54 years old exceeds that of other age groupings at 30 deaths per 100,000 people, however, the growth rate among younger age groups has accelerated since 2013.The non-Hispanic white population accounted for the vast majority of deaths from a drug overdose, accounting for 80 percent of the deaths. Moreover, from 1999 to 2015, the drug overdose death rate among this population increased from 6.2 to 21.1, an average annual rate of 7 percent. Other races—including black and Hispanic Americans—have historically seen a more tempered increase in the overdose death rate, but the most recent data from the CDC reveals potential shifts in these trends. For example, the number black Americans who died from a drug overdose increased in 2015 from 10.5 deaths per 100,000 people to 12.2 deaths, the largest single-year increase in drug-related deaths among this group in the last 16 years.While men have persistently represented the majority of deaths by drug overdose at around 60 percent, the increased deaths nationwide by drug overdose during 2015 took an even greater toll on men in the US. The annual growth rate in overdose deaths among men was an astonishing 14.4 percent from 2014 to 2015, with the total number of deaths climbing from nearly 29,000 to about 33,000. 

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Cocaine Prices //knoema.es/lrxbjvf/cocaine-prices 2017-03-09T15:39:02Z Misha Gusev knoema.es://knoema.es/user/1000140
Cocaine Prices

Although global coca bush cultivation in 2014 increased by 10 percent from the previous year, the actual area under coca bush cultivation was the second smallest since the late 1980s. Global cocaine manufacture was slightly higher than in the previous year but still 24-27 percent lower than the peak in 2007, and thus basically back to the levels reported in the late 1990s. At the same time, there are indications that the increase in global cocaine manufacture observed in 2014 was not a one-off event and may have continued in 2015.

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Seven Big Summits: UN General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem //knoema.es/ckevjxe/seven-big-summits-un-general-assembly-special-session-on-the-world-drug-problem 2016-01-15T06:17:00Z Alex Kulikov knoema.es://knoema.es/user/1847910
Seven Big Summits: UN General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem

Event date: April 19 - 21 Three weeks after the Nuclear Security Summit, the action will shift to New York, where the United Nations will hold its first special session on the global drug problem since 1998. Eighteen years ago, the slogan was “A Drug-Free World: We Can Do It.” Its focus was on prohibition, eradication, interdiction, prosecution, and incarceration. This year's summit will be different: frustrated by the futile “war on drugs” and its attendant criminal violence, a number of national governments (particularly in Latin America and Europe) are experimenting with decriminalization and harm-reduction strategies. In the United States, Colorado, Washington, and a dozen other states are similarly turning to public-health approaches. Canada's new Liberal government, meanwhile, is considering legalizing marijuana. The summit will test whether the reformist constituency within the United Nations extends beyond the Western Hemisphere and Europe. The Nuclear Security Summit | UN General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem | World Humanitarian Summit | Group of Seven Summit | Group of Twenty Summit | Habitat III | Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

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World Drug Report //knoema.es/fgkuudc/world-drug-report 2015-09-11T11:16:20Z Alina Buzanakova knoema.es://knoema.es/user/1293450
World Drug Report

Today there is widespread recognition that drugs, together with organized crime, jeopardize the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. It is increasingly clear that drug control must become an essential element of our joint efforts to achieve peace, security and development. The World Drug Report documents developments in global drug markets and tries to explain the factors that drive them. Its analysis of trends and emerging challenges informs national and international drug and crime priorities and policies, and provides a solid foundation of evidence for counternarcotics interventions. Drug markets and drug use patterns change rapidly, so measures to stop them must also be quick to adapt. Thus the more comprehensive the drug data are collected and the stronger capacity to analyse the problem, the better prepared the international community will be to respond to new challenges.   Source: UNODC World Drug Report, 2014

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