Most measures for ecstasy, and probably a few other drugs too, collect information for the number of total users, ie; users per year, and the number of people who use ecstasy over the course of their lives.
I’m trying to find data on the number of pills (and other delivery system forms of ecstasy) consumed in the USA every year.
For instance, you might have 90% of the total annual users only representing having consumed 1 or 2 pills that year, but there are also frequent consumers of the drug. If only say 5% of total annual users are considered frequent consumers and take an average of 10 pills a year, then that 5% total might reflect a considerable amount of the total pills consumed; possibly a quarter or more of the total pills.
To look at it in tabled form I have given some general guesstimates of pills consumed by users to gauge the potential total number of ecstasy pills consumed per year in the USA.
Statistics reflect about an average of 0.8% of Americans having consumed ecstasy in the past year.
Number of pills consumed in a year (n) Group average n Percentage make up of total annual users Number of pills consumed (representing total users) Note 1 1 60 0.6 2 2 20 0.4 Very common to consume 2 pills in one session and may not represent users consuming ecstasy in different sessions 3 – 5 4 10 0.4 Might do this 3 or so times per year 6 – 20 12 10 0.4 Once per month 21 – 40 30 3 0.9 Uses most weekends Total number of pills consumed (representing total users) Average of 3.1 pills consumed per user
Table summary:
If 0.8% of Americans consume 3.1 pills per year then the number of pills equates to whatever 2.5%~ of the USA population.
The total number of ecstasy pills consumed in the USA per year would be 8.3 million based on a country population of 332 million.
Note:
As I said, my calculations are guesses, but I would imagine statistics would be broken up in a similar way.
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