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afpxlast Monday at 1:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's estimated that more people today use amphetamines than people used cocaine in 1910


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BobaFloutistlast Monday at 3:08 PM

Is that including legal prescriptions or just recreational use?

Because taking a once daily extended release 25mg Adderall is very different from taking recreational amphetamines or cocaine.

noisy_boylast Monday at 1:30 PM

Just taking America as example, 1910 has 92 million people Vs 345 million or so today. Also with modern means of transportation + spread/speed of manufacturing of illegal drugs + capture of the political class by corporations including pharmaceuticals are sufficient reasons for that statistic to be not surprising at all.