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They show hundreds of thousands of users of drugs. Yet the population of addicts is very small.



There's just a tiny bit of background missing here...

What is a drug here? Heroin? Meth? Cocaine? Pot? Beer?

For something like heroin or meth I'd like to know what "very small" means, and how they count "users" and "addicts". If a "user" is someone who admits to taking any at all in a calendar year and an addict is someone who admits to more than twice a week, then a big discrepancy is believable, otherwise I'd want to look closely at methodology and definitions.

Drug surveys seem like climate models: you can get any answer you want by tweaking the definitions and methodology.

PS. Where's Toelicker? We need an expert opinion here?
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