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= Cocaine in the United States = Adding on from the current article...

Early 2000's
After the 1990's we see a slow increase in usage of Cocaine between the years of 2001-2005. However, after 2005 we see a quick and sudden decrease in usage. The reason for the sudden decrease is because Columbia, the worlds leading supplier of crack cocaine, started to cracked down on the production of the plant leading farmers to become scared of getting arrested leading them to veer away from producing the plant that create the drug crack cocaine. These declining statistics have been for the United States, however other parts of the world aren't do lucky. Parts of Europe have been have increasing rates of cocaine consumption through the 2000's.

The youth has been also affected by cocaine. A recent study conducted in 2017 shows that 4.2% of 12th Graders (seniors in High school) have used cocaine. The study also indicates that the way they retrieved their information was from an anonymous survey where students are to answer honestly, however the researchers indicate that in fear of getting in trouble some of the students still may have not told the truth and answered incorrectly showing that there are more of a prevalence of drug usage in students. These statistics show that there is an increasing amount of consumption within high school students over the United States. The overall trend of people in the United States have been decreasing yet the usage of high school students have been increasing.