2000 NSDUH shows 1.2 million cocaine (last month) users -- and my guess is maybe half are addicts. Add 200K heroin addicts, and you get around .25%, or half the 1900's legal rate.
Give it a rest already.
"Cautious evaluation of this data is necessary because the NHSDA cannot accurately measure rare or stigmatized drug use, relying as it does on self-reporting and on people residing in households. In alternate research, the number of hardcore* users of heroin in 1998 was estimated to be 980,000,"
"Estimates of heroin use from the NHSDA are considered very conservative due to the probable underreporting and undercoverage of the population of heroin users."
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Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey, Oct 4, 2000:
"For example, numbers like heroin addiction. You can find numbers that go from 255,000 up to the one I'm currently using, 980,000, if I remember the last time we updated it, and those are all valid scientific studies."
--http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/symposium/panelmccaffrey.html
So, the government says its own household survey numbers are not reliable, and both the USDOJ and the Drug Czar say there are 980,000 heroin addicts.
The DOJ also says there are 3.6 million hardcore users who spend $36 billion/year on cocaine. That's $10,000/year per hardcore user. I suppose you're going to maintain that is not addiction?
Time to face the facts, the WOD is a failed social experiment.