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SAMHSA News - Volume X, No. 3, Summer 2002
 

Survey Finds Millions of Americans in Denial About Drug Abuse

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Estimated Number (in Millions) of People Who First Used Marijuana During the Years 1965 to 2000


  Number of Initiates in Millions
1965 0.6
1966 0.9
1967 1.4
1968 1.9
1969 2.3
1970 2.5
1971 2.8
1972 2.7
1973 3.0
1974 3.0
1975 2.8
1976 3.2
1977 3.1
1978 3.0
1979 2.9
1980 2.6
1981 2.0
1982 2.0
1983 1.9
1984 2.0
1985 1.9
1986 1.8
1987 1.6
1988 1.6
1989 1.5
1990 1.4
1991 1.5
1992 1.6
1993 1.9
1994 2.2
1995 2.4
1996 2.5
1997 2.5
1998 2.5
1999 2.31
2000 2.42

Source: SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies, National Household Survey on Drug
Abuse, 1999-2001


1Estimated using 2000 and 2001 data only.
2Estimated using 2001 data only.

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