Many people resort to the use of mood-altering substances such as crack cocaine as a way of battling mental health conditions. Mental health disorders are the most common co-occurring problems in crack cocaine addiction. In many cases, some of these disorders may have been present before the addiction became an issue. These statistics highlight the urgent need for more proactive measures against the abuse of crack cocaine.Īs is the case with many forms of addiction, it’s common to find crack cocaine addiction accompanied by other disorders. This is in comparison to 235,000 females reported within the same period of time. The number of males aged 12 and above that reported crack cocaine use in 2015 was almost 600,000. More than 9 million people reported using crack at some point in their lifetime. In 2015, 400,000 people aged 12 and above reported ongoing or occasional use of cocaine. In the United States, 5,500 deaths from crack overdose were recorded in 2014. A study by researchers at Liverpool John Moores University estimates that the number of crack users in England rose by 10% to 182,828 in the five years from 2010 to 2015. Separate data released by the Home Office in 2017 also highlighted a 16% rise in the number of crack seizure cases. This is up from the 2,980 in the previous year. Figures from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System show that 3,657 people requested help with stopping crack addiction in the last year. In the United Kingdom, statistics published in 2017 showed that there has been a 23% rise in the number of people seeking help for cocaine addiction.
0 kommentar(er)
