Drug Misuse Declared
Last week the Home Office produced their annual analysis of the figures the British Crime Survey has about adult drug use in England and Wales, Drug Misuse Declared.
Since then we've been through the figures ourselves to look at what the report can tell us about young adults - 16 to 24 year olds - use of drugs.
As with the report on school pupil's drug used published at the same time the trends appear to be of a continuing and substantial falls in the proportions who have ever used drugs (down 8% from 1996), those who used last year (10% down from '96) and those who say they've used in the last month (7% down from '96).
But beneath the trend the sheer scale of drug use becomes clear with the report estimating that 2.7 million (41%) young adults have used illicit drugs at some point in their lives. And an estimate that over 480 thousand young (7.3%) adults are frequent drug users.
The report also breaks down some of the figures so that we can look at the differences in drug use in the last year between 16 to 19 year olds and 20 to 24 year olds.
We put some of the information into a presentation that we hope readers will find useful.
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