Countries with the highest cocaine consumption

Countries with the highest cocaine consumption

   

 

Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world. 

The most recent statistics show that international seizures of cocaine have continued to increase and now total 756 metric tons, with the largest quantities of the drug intercepted in South America, followed by North America.

According to the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction, cocaine is also the second most commonly used illegal drug in Europe.

 Among young people (15 to 34 years), an estimated 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.

In the United States, the 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health reports that 35.3 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used cocaine.

 Also that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack. Among those 18 to 25, 6.9% of those surveyed said they had used cocaine (including crack) within the last year.

 Among high-school students, 8.5% of twelfth graders had used cocaine at some point in their young lives, according to the 2006 Monitoring the Future Study by the National Institute for Drug Abuse.

In the United States, cocaine continues to be the most frequently mentioned illegal drug reported to the Drug Abuse Warning Network by hospital emergency departments. 

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There were 448,481 emergency department visits involving cocaine reported in 2007.

“My friend was on drugs for four years, three of which were on hard drugs such as cocaine, LSD, morphine and many antidepressants and painkillers.

 Actually anything he could get his hands on.

 He complained all the time of terrible pains in his body and he just got worse and worse till he finally went to see a doctor.

“The doctor told him that there was nothing that could be done for him and that due to the deterioration of his body, he would not live much longer. Within days—he was dead.”

The other day we put together maps of illegal drug use from the U.N.'s World Drug Report 2016, and now we are going through the data to get a better idea of which countries use which drugs most.

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 We made the "Top 12" of marijuana users.

Now here's list of countries with the highest annual prevalence of cocaine use (as a percentage of the population aged 15 to 64):

1) Isle of Man 3.5%

2) Spain 2.7; Scotland*: 2.7%

4) England*; USA; Italy: 2.2%

7) Australia**: 2.1%

8) Monaco 1.9%

9) Ireland; Uruguay; Saint Kitts and Nevis: 1.7%

*aged 16 to 64

**aged 14+

 These 11 countries are far ahead of the field as the next closest country was Bermuda* (1.3%).

Spain, USA, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Italy and Australia also made the list for countries with the highest prevalence of marijuana users.

The country today consumes 18% of the world’s yearly supply of the drug, with 2.8 million Brazilians, or 1.4% of the population, snorting or smoking a combined 92,000 kilograms in 2010, according to estimates provided to us by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Brazil’s coke explosion has been called “the most worrying side-effect of the country’s recent consumer boom,” with use spreading not only across slums, dubbed “Cracolândias,” but also among the swelling middle class, who now comprise more than half of the population.

 Tax breaks and steep interest rate cuts have kept consumer confidence high and fueled continued retail spending, despite warnings of a broader economic slowdown.

“Drugs follow money,” Ronaldo Laranjeira, coordinator of the Brazilian institute’s study, told local media this month.

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 “The countries that consume most drugs are the ones that have the most money.” Yet while Brazilian consumers may today have more disposable income to spend, the country has not yet invested extensively in addiction treatment.

A report from Brazil’s National Institute of Science and Technology for Public Alcohol and Drug Policy put the country’s consumption even higher than the UN, with 2.6 million users.

 It called Brazil the world’s top crack market and the second biggest destination for powdered cocaine.

Four in five Brazilian users preferred more expensive cocaine powder over crack and its local variant “oxi,” although use of that cheap, smokeable form of the drug cooked with gasoline, battery fluid or other chemicals – has continued to spread from Amazon outposts into poor urban areas.

Most of the world’s cocaine originates in Brazil’s Andean neighbors, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia, which produce but don’t consume as much of the drug, according the UN.

 It’s then smuggled through the Amazon to Brazil’s wealthier southeastern cities, which as a region account for nearly half of Brazilian consumption. More then travels east to Africa and north from there to European markets, where a quarter of the global supply is consumed.

Countries with the highest cocaine consumption

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