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UN: 200 Million Illicit Drug Users Worldwide
June 30, 2005

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Research Summary

Fifteen million more people used drugs last year, bringing the worldwide population of illicit-drug users to 200 million, the BBC reported June 29.

The total includes 160 million marijuana users, 16 million opiate users (including an estimated 105 million heroin users), and 14 million cocaine users.

According to the UN's annual drug report, the global drug trade is worth at least $320 billion, a figure larger than the gross domestic product of 90 percent of the nations on the planet. Officials said Afghanistan produced 87 percent of the world's supply of opium, even as opium production declined in Burma and Laos. Cocaine production fell in Colombia, but rose in Peru and Bolivia.

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