The ONDCP figures for addiction in 2000 show 977,000 heroin addicts and 3,325,000 cocaine addicts. With a population of 280,000,000, that works out to an addiction rate of about 1.5%. The data is reproduced in table form at the following link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1454298/posts?page=88#88
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The DEA says that 0.5% of Americans were addicted to either cocaine or opium in 1900:
By 1900, about one American in 200 was either a cocaine or opium addict.
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/demand/speakout/06so.htm
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So after a century of increasingly aggressive prohibition, our own government is telling us that addiction has gone from 0.5% in 1900 to 1.5% in 2000.
...Thanks for the facts, I have read and heard the abuse, addiction rate is up. It’s a tough issue, for or against the WOD. My point is the WOD is not effective,for the most part. Surely those on the front line are in harms way. they’re brave people. But, they choose to be there, and bad things happen in war. People get killed...
...I don’t have a solution, I just have an opinion on what doesn’t work. And the WOD is not working...