The 2008 report of the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) and Cidac-OAS (Inter-American Drug Abuse Control) also notes that countries are also more smokers and the heaviest drinkers.
The first comparative study on drug use was conducted during 2006 and 2007 with a total sample of 61,607 people, 12 to 65, representing 43 million people in six countries.
High consumption in Argentina were consulted 12,459 people, Bolivia, 8662, Chile, 15,776, Ecuador, 7341, Peru, 10,927 and Uruguay, 6442. In Argentina, Chile and Uruguay there is a high level of illicit drug use compared to Bolivia, which is in between, and Ecuador and Peru who have less use.
For legal drugs, alcohol consumption is higher compared to snuff, to the extent that some of these six countries 'problematic' or addiction reaches 40%, according to the study of the Inter-American Commission Abuse Control Commission (CICAD).
The Cicad said this was the first comparative study of its kind in the commission, and focused mainly on cocaine, marijuana and cocaine base, such as illegal drugs, and snuff and alcohol, and legal.
"This study shows that both in countries with high consumption of illicit drugs and in the low-power, mostly illicit drug users consumed one drug, mostly marijuana," he says. Results
In the case of snuff, 34% of Argentines and Uruguayans reported the use of, in Chile, 44%, 26% in Bolivia, and Peru and Ecuador are smoking less, 19% said it.
Meanwhile, consumption of alcohol has a similar pattern.
figures exceed 50% in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, just over 40% in Bolivia and around 35% in Ecuador and Peru.
Regarding illicit drugs, as in most countries of the world, marijuana is the most widely used, mainly among young people. Among the six countries, the recent average consumption is 4.8%, 3.8% higher than the world average.
The percentage for the six countries amounts to 2.1 million people out of 43 million study. As for cocaine, the average number of six countries in terms of the prevalence of consumption in the past year is 1.4%, surpassing the 0.3% global average.
As for the paste, the study says that consumption is low: 0.4% to 0.6% in Argentina, Chile, Peru Uruguay and considering the prevalence of last year, and around 0.1% in Bolivia and Ecuador.
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