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The USA is central to the global drug problem in every field, being by far the largest consumer, thereby generating the lion’s share of the world’s $500 billion drug turnover. There are believed to be 3 million regular cocaine users, of whom half may take crack, and between 600,000 and 800,000 heroin addicts.1
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Dr Mark Gold, founder of the US National Cocaine Helpline, speaking at a World Ministerial Drugs Conference in London, 9— 11 April 1990
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Clutterbuck, R. (1995). The USA. In: Drugs, Crime and Corruption. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376472_15
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