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Drug use climbs
New Zealand Herald, 23 June 1999
Aucklanders are using drugs more than in the past, says the
first national survey of recreational drug use, released by
the University of Auckland.
Among the 5000 people aged 15 to 45 surveyed by telephone
last year, 15 per cent said they used marijuana, an increase
on a 1990 poll in the Auckland/Bay of Plenty area. [12%]
Only 1 per cent were daily users.
Ecstasy use had also risen in Auckland, from below 1 per
cent in 1990 to 2 per cent, said Professor Sally Casswell,
of the university's Alcohol and Public Health Research Unit.
Aucklanders were also using more LSD and magic mushrooms,
the use of the former rising from 2 per cent in 1990 to 5
per cent last year.
© Copyright 1999, NZ Herald
Copies of this report can be obtained from the Alcohol & Public Health Research Unit on 09 3737999, or on their website at http://www.aphru.ac.nz/projects/drugsNS.htm
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