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38% of Americans have use marijuana at some time
12% have used cocaine at some time
8% have used LSD
2% have used heroin
3% of the population of 330 million have died of overdose
.003% are dependant on heroin

Drug use among teens
The most commonly used illicit drugs among U.S. students in grades 8,
10, and 12 are marijuana, inhalants, and LSD and other hallucinogens.
As of 2022, around 24 percent of these students reported they had used >marijuana in their lifetime, while only 1.3 percent had used cocaine. >However, the lifetime prevalence of any illicit drug use for teens has >decreased significantly over the past two decades. In 2022, just 28
percent of those in grades 8, 10, and 12 reported using an illicit drug
in their lifetime, compared to 41 percent in the year 2001. The
availability of certain drugs for teens has also decreased in recent
years with only 18 percent of 12th graders saying it was �fairly easy�
or �very easy� to get cocaine in 2022, compared with 46 percent in 2001.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290804/us-lifetime-prevalence-drug- >use-grades-8-10-12-by-drug/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/208420/us-lifetime-prevalence-drug- >use-grades-8-10-12-since-1991/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/208467/availability-of-cocaine-as- >perceived-by-us-12th-graders-since-1975/

CNBC claims 100,000 overdose deaths. >https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/08/drug-overdoses-cost-the-us-around-1- >trillion-a-year-report-says.html

However, it is abundantly clear these days that the major "news"
sources cannot be trusted. You will also notice they get their stats
from:

https://www.rand.org/topics/fentanyl-and-other-synthetic-opioids.html

You will also notice the above page is full of seemingly left wing
liberal nonsense about how complicated drug usage is.

It ain't complicated. The above page belonging to some outfit looking
for assurance of their "elite" intelligence is exactly why we have many
of the national problems we have. In reality things are not that
complex. Send 2nd time drug offenders to prison. Send drug dealers to
prison for life. And don't tell me we cannot financially afford such an >increase in prisons. We give away billions to other countries. Keep
some of those dollars for ourselves.

As for such a cure "ruining" lives. Who gives a damn? This very minor
bunch of felonious scumbags are costing us an estimated trillion
dollars a year. The real cost is to the honest individuals whose homes
are burgled, cars stolen, who are beaten and robbed - and killed, by
these criminals who freely made the choice of being a druggie.

If you have any further doubts about the worth of CNBC quoting the U.S. Commission On Combating Opiod Trafficking just look at the Web site for
this "Commission". It's just another government outfit full of
politicians. It is they who have done literally nothing to stop the
influx of drugs and make stiff enough jail sentences for drug offenders
and dealers over the past decades. And, as the original poster said,
who can any longer trust any of the major news providers?

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/congressional-record- index/116th-congress/2nd-session/commission-on-combating-synthetic- opioid-trafficking/545493?s=1&r=381&q=%22C%22

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