[Hillary 666]

A gramme of heroin in Russia's second city costs around 1,000 rubles, or 33 dollars.

Russia now has some three million drug addicts consuming more than a billion dollars worth of illicit drugs every year

Check my math, but that would mean (I think) that the average drug addict only spends $333.33 a year on drugs. The one billion dollar figure has to be way low unless I'm looking at the numbers wrong.

[AGAviator]

that would mean (I think) that the average drug addict only spends $333.33 a year on drugs

There's a lot less to steal in Russia than there is in the West, and a per capita montly income of $100 is considered being well off.

Your name definitely makes my Top 10.

[citizenK]

The one billion dollar figure has to be way low unless ...

Count on errors on both sides of the equation here.
The number of addicts reported are likely to be inflated too.