ISSUE GUIDES: Illegal Drugs
GET THE FACTS
- Which drugs people use
- Number of new users annually
- Gender gap in illicit drug use
- Teen drug use
- Teen use of marijuana
- Teen attitudes about marijuana
- Federal drug control spending
- Breakdown of the federal drug control budget
- Number of drug arrests
- Most drug arrests are for possession
- A sizable minority of prisoners were on drugs at time of crime
- Drug testing in the workplace
- Fewer drug tests at work are positive
- Drug and alcohol use, by occupation
- Drug use declined following testing in the military
- Spending on illegal drugs
- Medical marijuana laws
- Illicit drug use among full-time workers











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