Meth Statistics
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According to the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), meth statistics, an approximated 10.4 million Americans aged 12 or older used methamphetamine at least once in their life for recreational use, representing 4.3% of the U.S. population in that age group. The amount of past year meth users in 2005 was approximately 1.3 million (0.5% of the population aged 12 or older) and the amount of past month meth users was 512,000 (0.2%).
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Meth statistics show that in 2005, nearly 6.2% of high school seniors reported using meth at least once.
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The number of 12-17 year olds admitted to treatment for meth addiction more than doubled between 1994 and 2004.
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According to meth addiction statistics (from year 1995 to 2005), the number of admissions to treatment in which methamphetamine was the principal drug of abuse increased from 47,695 in 1995 to 152,368 in 2005. The methamphetamine admissions represented 2.8% of the total drug/alcohol admissions to treatment in the year 1995 and 8.2% of the treatment admissions in the year 2005. These meth statistics also indicate that the average age of the individuals admitted to treatment for meth addiction in 2005 was 31 years.
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Meth addiction statistics calculating costs associated with drug treatment are approximately $545 million, of which $491 million is in the community-based specialty treatment sector.
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Of an approximated 108 million emergency department (ED) admissions in the U.S. during 2005, the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) estimates that 1,449,154 ED visits were related with drug misuse or abuse. DAWN meth statistics data demonstrate that meth was involved in 108,905 of the drug-related ED admissions.
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47% of hospitals report Meth as the top illicit drug involved in emergency room visits according to meth addiction statistics.
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The number of annual Internet searches for "meth", 14,013, and "Crystal Meth addiction", 12,173, add credence to concern about this highly addictive stimulant. Similar to other substance abuse inquiries, people are often looking for information about "addiction treatment" (3,356 occurrences annually), and "addiction symptoms" (3,333), in relation to Crystal Meth addiction.
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In North Dakota, meth statistics estimate 60% of the male prison population are meth users. 80- 90% of the female prison population were incarcerated for meth related offenses.
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Meth statistics calculate that more than 85% of meth in the US comes from super labs in California and Mexico.
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Meth-making operations have been uncovered in all 50 states; Meth statistics show that Missouri tops the list, with more than 8,000 labs, equipment caches and toxic dumps seized between 2002 and 2004.
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According to the North Dakota Attorney General’s office, state legislation which controlled sale of over-the-counter cold medications like Sudafed reduced the number of local labs significantly from 190 lab incidents in 2005 to 40 in 2006.
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Meth statistics calculate that the manufacture of a pound of meth creates 5-6 pounds of toxic waste. Minnesota drug officials closed down a meth lab in 2003 being operated in an ice-fishing shack. The cookers were dumping waste into the ice hole, poisoning the lake.
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Small clandestine labs use any of hundred of different recipes to manufacture meth. Because the recipe using anhydrous ammonia was developed by the Germans during WWII, it is called the "Nazi" method of meth production.
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Meth manufacture creates toxic fumes and hazardous waste by-products that can poison water, pollute lakes, permeate walls and flooring and cause fires and explosions.
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Meth statistics calculate that it takes only $1,000 worth of ingredients to make $20,000 worth of meth.
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According to meth addiction statistics, the price of a dose of cocaine that would give an user a 20 minute high will buy enough meth to keep an user buzzed for a day or two.
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The makeshift equipment of an average clandestine lab would fit in a small cardboard box or cooler. Meth labs have been set up in kitchens, bath tubs, sheds, back yards, ice houses and vehicles.
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Cops nationwide rank methamphetamine the No. 1 drug they battle today: In a recent survey of meth statistics conducted on 500 law-enforcement agencies in 45 states by the National Association of Counties (NACO), 58 percent said meth is their biggest drug problem, compared with only 19 percent for cocaine, 17 percent for pot and 3 percent for heroin.
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In a 2005 speech to district attorneys, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that "in terms of damage to children and to our society, meth is now the most dangerous drug in America" (Newsweek, 8/8/2005).
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In (NACO’s) meth addiction statistics survey of local law enforcement, 70 percent said robberies or burglaries have increased because of meth, as have domestic violence, assaults and identity theft; 40 percent of child-welfare officials reported an increase in out-of-home placements last year due to meth.
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The average high from Crystal Meth lasts between 4-12 hours. It takes 12 hours for the user's body to remove 50% of the drug from their system, according to meth statistics.
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The RAND Corporation’s report “The Economic Cost of Methamphetamine Use in the United States, 2005,” estimates the national cost of Meth abuse is $23.4 billion.